Loops by Pixelfed
loops.video
Loops, explore and share short videos on the fediverse. Available soon!

I don’t know if you have heard, but Loops.video is a Reels/Tiktok like app from the creator of Pixelfed. I recall it being announced, and checked just now on a whim. All of a sudden, it appears pretty close to ready to launch!

  • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    3 months ago

    Dansup (the creator of mentioned site) runs several projects including Pixelfed (federated Instagram) but also an AP messenger (which doesn’t seem very useful to me imo).

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3315·
    3 months ago

    We dont need more tiktok like sites.

    We need to kill the ones that already exist.

    They are social cancer.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      211·
      3 months ago

      isn’t it mostly because of their overly addictive recommendation algorithms? taking away infinite scrolling would also help a lot to make it more healthy.

      I know people, 40+ in age, who just want to see some fun videos in their work breaks, when nobody’s around to talk with

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      44·
      3 months ago

      If it’s between that and another TikTok, yes please do. These choices are as painful as a US presidential election.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        3 months ago

        I also vote for Skynet and the inevitable nuclear Armageddon.

        May the atomic spark be struck, and spears of purifying nuclear flame rain from above.

  • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    434·
    3 months ago

    I’ll be passing on that.

    I don’t enjoy my content being the same format as advertising.

    Glad to hear of any federated internet updates though.

    • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
      241·
      3 months ago

      Do you feel the same way about Mastadon? Twitter was the “look at me” social media. I feel like you just shout things into the void and people give you points for agreeing with you. Its impossible to carry on a real conversation on Twitter (a proper threaded message board like Lemmy excels at this). It seems tied in with the cult of personality whereas we need to shift to a culture of ideas.

      I’m probably just a stupid millennial who doesn’t get it, but Lemmy seems like the only really good fediverse structure.

      • MimicJar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        122·
        3 months ago

        Do you feel the same way about Mastadon?

        Yes.

        I’m not sure that’s my reason, but I’ve never understood Twitter/Mastodon. It’s just shouting into a void.

      • ilhamagh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        Fully agree, I have masto/pixelfed client on my phone but Lemmy is the the one I used most by a long shot.

        Idk why it is but on other platforms I feel like I’m intruding on someone else’s conversation, but I can freely reply here no problem (to some extent).

        • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Right. And if you say something constructive, we can respond, and if you don’t, the conversation branch dies.

          Twitter/Mastadon do feel weird in that way, but I am thankful for Mastadon’s success even if it’s not really for me.

      • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        I feel like you just shout things into the void and people give you points for agreeing with you.

        Lol at first I thought this was a direct criticism of the person you were replying to.

  • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
    371·
    3 months ago

    Good luck to the creator. Pixelfed works well for me, despite being a bit empty, both on my instance and globally. The bones are there though and I personally prefer the way it works over Mastadon’s Twitterish format. I wish I could use Mastadon more because that’s where the mist fediverse users seem to be, but even decades later, Twitter style interfaces do not make sense to me. I’m a smart, nerdy, millennial, who grew up with computers. I can make sense of the IRS’s 1040 form without using turbo tax, but for some reason I can’t make sense of this horrible illogical interface that millions of people love.

    In regards to the tiktok tok style app, I think it’ll have a good chance of success simply because it is TikTok’s less assholey cousin and even though many people will trade privacy for functionality, tiktok is about due to become a lame, cringe app for old folks.

    • NebLem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I haven’t used Pixelfed, but does it fail to work with with microblogging fedi platform content so bad that you feel you’d have to use Mastodon? Outside of the group/community/threadiverse federation issues in Masto and Lemmy not letting you follow accounts, I my understanding was everything worked pretty well talking to eachoter.