How do you guys feel about Loops?
How do you guys feel about Loops?
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Some are calling Loops (https://pixelfed.social/loops) the FediTok (Federated TikTok). What's your personal stance on this?
I'm not a fan of short form videos at all, but it's cool that exists for those who do :)
If it has an embed API, I'll probably add support to Tesseract if there's interest.
Lol I'm not a huge fan either, but I love being able to doom scroll after a tiring day at work.
My friends will usually send me the good stuff so it spares me the scrolling. They get to share something cool they found, and I don't have to scroll. Win-win 😆
I’m not a fan of short form videos at all, but it’s cool that exists for those who do
Same. I dip in occasionally, but much prefer long-form (and landscape) videos. Always happy to see more fediverse projects though.
I'm not a fan of crack at all, but I'm glad it exists for those who do
I don't think short-form video is quite that addictive, but your comment made me chuckle.
I never got into the short form video thing but anything to get more people onto the Fediverse is a good thing
Short form content without a profix-maximizing algorithm pushing it to you does sound interesting, not gonna lie
Yeah, I can't do Instagram or TikTok because within 3 videos I'm either getting something inflammatory or selling something. An algorithmically neutral version would be amazing.
As a heavy tiktok user I would probably only use this if it had an algorithmic feed.
I am very, very excited about it! I check for updates nearly every day lol
Lmao same! I quit TikTok because of their TOS and Privacy Policy. I've been looking for an alternative ever since, but none are privacy respecting.
I wonder how it will work without an algorithm, though 🤔
The algorithms are what makes these services. Most interactions aren’t searching and selecting something specific or intentional, they’re just opening a fire hose and expecting the algorithm to pick content they find entertaining for them. It requires the algorithm to have a lot of information, both about the specific user, and about similar users.
I'm not a fan of Bluesky, but i hear tell they got some sorta customizable sorting algorithm thingy right? Maybe it'll have something like that!
Bröthër may I have some lööps
I never got into vertical video, not my type of thing.
But if something like that is a way for someone to reduce stress or do anything in a bored moment, then why not.
That's a refreshing take to have on things.
Ofc! That's what I use them for haha, destressing.
I'm happy about any new features that draw more users to a federated alternative :)
Can't be bothered, tiktok is cancer, and I don't need an alternative.
They are working on loops but yet Pixelfed doesn't have push notifications yet.
I hope they support UnifiedPush
I don't watch reels, shorts, tiktoks or any other short for videos and Loops is not an exception. I moved from Instagram to Pixelfed for the sole purpose of getting atleast some audience for my photography since Instagram wants you to post videos instead.
What's your profile? Let me drop you a follow!
I've been waiting for something like this. A FOSS, federated TikTok alternative that doesn't send my data to the Chinese and doesn't sell it to data brokers sounds pretty great.
I was thinking about Loops earlier today. I'd love to implement Quiblr's For You recommendation algorithm for Loops and see how it performs. I haven't joined the beta though so not sure how baked it is yet
I still haven't figured out why people like them except to annoy everyone around them by playing the audio through their phone speakers.
I'm more looking for a federated RPAN than a tiktok.
I was never into this type of content cayse I don't wanna touch tiktok nor instagram. This does seem interesting though
How do I join the closed beta?