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And coming to F-droid soon!
I mixed up loops and threats (Meta) and I was honestly surprised.
I mixed up loops and threats (Meta)
Unclear if typo, or intentional insult. Either way, leave it that way.
English is not my first language. Or second. It took me a few rereads to even see the mistake.
Either way, I’ll leave ir
I guess it is an “improvement” that we can replace corporate brain rot with community brain rot, but this isn’t going to change my mind about short form video.
I do not understand the desire to have alternatives to the world‘s dumbest format. We had good video platforms that worked. Users had agency. Short form video stripped everything away that made the internet a great place once. It‘s poison for society. It needs no alternatives. It just needs to implode.
It should be horizontal, amirite?
That makes no difference. The problem is the length and the passive acceptance of what the app serves to you.
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I’ll check it out once it’s on android, this one more than any other fedi alternative will live or die with its content I think
Already on android in .apk
Google Play and F-Droid pending
Good to hear. Trying it out now
For content creators it needs a built-in editor instead of forcing every video to be one take. And for consumers it needs a really good recommendation algorithm. The reason TikTok is so successful is that its absurdly efficient (and incredibly invasive) algorithm will find you content you’d like within probably minutes of setting up an account.
I like that this exists, but I don’t think it’s ready for mass adoption yet.
yeah, as much as I hate algorithm-based social media short form content needs it. you scroll from one video to the next with no way to pick and choose which ones you interact with. normally you can just not click on a post and it gets nothing from you, but short form content does not allow that. that means the next video has to be chosen for you, and that regular feeds will not work. that mean you have to have some kind of algorithm or you will have to interact with tons of videos you have no interest in to get to one that is worth watching to you (which is the current state of loops).
I mean Loops has a For You page, but the algorithm seems much worse than TikTok (unsurprisingly). Partly I’m sure simply because there is so much less content to pull from, so it might seem worse than it is purely because there might not actually be anything worthwhile on it to recommend to you in the first place. But TikTok’s algorithm is famously extremely good at identifying things you would like, even things you might not know you would like yourself. To be able to be an alternative in the brainrot delivery market, Loops needs to be able to come at least closer.
And it’s only on iPhone, bruh
Denied access without an account, no thanks.
Strange stipulation for a fediverse app.
Guess I’m getting loops, thanks thread below this one for promoting it and this thread for telling me it’s on the store.
Awesome, I’ve been looking forward to this! I warmed up to short-form videos, but still refuse to use TikTok and could use an alternative to YouTube Shorts.
