@pixelfed: Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated Using #ActivityPub
pixelfed (@pixelfed@mastodon.social)
Neat! I’ll probably try it out. Like it or not, short form video is really popular now, so this feels like a good thing to grow Pixelfed and the fediverse
As someone who cannot stand stories, TikTok, and basically short form video as a whole, I may check this out for the fediverse!!
I occasionally get pulled into the YouTube shorts and hate howuch time I lose to them. Worse was that although I barely use Instagram beyond keeping in contact with friends who only use it, I happened to watch the reels for a little yesterday and they were really entertaining.
A lot of amateur video creators don't have the experience to keep their work engaging for long periods of time, half the internet feels like SNL sketches that make their best punchline in the first 20 seconds and then milk the same joke for the next 3 minutes. The way short form content cuts through the crap is actually quite nice. It obviously has a whole bunch of its own issues but that's mostly due to chasing the algorithms favour, not the short form nature of the content.
For sure, it will be interesting to see how it grows organically as of most things in the fediverse.
