The Fediverse might be getting their own mashups of Tiktok, YouTube, and Vine sooner than anyone thought, thanks to the work of one prolific dev spearheading an effort. The best part? He’s helping other projects in the space, too.
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They are going to need an algorithm if they want to keep people. The whole fediverse needs it for that matter. It makes for less work for the user base. User chosen or created is fine, but they need it.
Hmh, not my cup of tea, but more variety is good, I think. Though hosting a popular instance might get pretty expensive.
Eww!!! TikTok is so nasty!!!
Isn’t this the point of this thing? To not have to use tik tok?
Exactly
Hmm, unless the plan is to have a lot of reposts from TikTok, the real difficulty of these platforms is to have super easy to use video editing tools in the mobile app. And that is really a project all on it’s own and requires a entirely different skillset.
You know, that’s actually a really good point. Dansup tends to iterate on certain parts of his apps several times over, like how Pixelfed handles image uploads and filters prior to posting. It might be that just going with the simplest possible thing makes sense for right now, until a better approach can be devised.
I really hope they find a way to keep this on “Loops” and not poison the Fedi with vertical videos.
That’s my main concern. Seeing content from other platforms in my Mastodon feed is pretty great right now (Lemmy, PeerTube etc). But hashtag feeds could quickly get overrun by something like this if it works the same way.
That said, making this its own thing instead of building a “reels” for Pixelfed suggests the dev already knows separation will be important, so 🤞
@thegiddystitcher @helenslunch I think hashtag feeds being overrun with vertical videos is an excellent point. (One I hope @dansup considers!)
But beyond that, I think vertical videos through Loops on the Fedi are likely to be far less obtrusive than they have been on other platforms.
What’s so annoying about them on Instagram and YouTube is that the algorithm automatically drops vertical videos into my feed.
And there’s *lots* of them in my feed, often on topics I’m not interested in.
They’re not there because I’m interested, but because they serve the commercial interests of the social media app’s owners.
Hashtags aside, on the Fedi, they’ll only appear in your feed if you follow a Loops account you’re interested in, or someone you follow finds one interesting enough to share.
And if people on your Mastodon server all find them really annoying, there’s always the option to just block the Loops servers and be done with it.
Can’t wait to never try it.
Maybe it should’ve been integrated as a part of pixelfed like how reels are on instagram ? Because it can benifit on the aldready existing userbase and would be much less work all the servers have to inrease the file size allotment tho. Maybe that’s not those userbase want idk never been there
So, one interesting aspect here is that you can log into it with your existing Mastodon or Pixelfed account. Loops and Sup both seem to be building on the idea that you can use existing Fediverse accounts to log in, meaning you don’t necessarily need to create a new account and navigate a new platform all over again.
Well now’s the time if TikTok gets banned.
Perhaps it will be the third great migration?
how much would it cost to provide this endless stream of media? im guessing it would be very costly.
Just what we all need. More trash “short” video content.
Normies love short videos and I think this is a good alternative.
Oh for fucks sake
Does this mean they finally fixed the issue of uploading video content from mobile?
Oh this is fantastic. It’s definitely something that’s been missing and been a conundrum in regards to figuring out how to sort it. Glad to see the PixelFed developer figured out how to do it.
Vine 3.0 let’s try this again
This time it’s personal!
Wait, we want anonymous
Electric boogloo?
Never met her
