A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse
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Loops promises to bring the TikTok experience to the fediverse.

Signups opened this week for Loops, a short-form looping video app from the creator of Instagram alternative Pixelfed, reports TechCrunch.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3511·
    25 days ago

    Yes, and it will still be brainrot.

    My attention span is just fine. I don’t need to see it ruined by short format nonsense with about as much intellectual value as the nutritional value of a McDonald’s cheeseburger.

    I never installed TikTok or Snapchat on my phone, not because I had privacy concerns, but because I hate everything about the format.

    • irotsoma@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      25 days ago

      It’s not the format that is the problem. It’s that old rich people from the broadcast industry decided that since they couldn’t compete with the communications and community industry they’d instead turn the communications platforms into broadcast platforms and tear down all of the community aspects. It happened to all of social media including more long form media as well. So if this project can avoid selling out or being manipulated by spammers into becoming yet another broadcast platform, it might have a shot.

      • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        25 days ago

        It’s absolutely the format. The old rich people just have the incentive to drag everyone into it, to make it something to get “hooked” on. But the format itself is already cancerous.

      • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        25 days ago

        Cultural osmosis.

        Just because I never installed TikTok or Snapchat, doesn’t mean I’ve never seen or heard anything from it. Snapchat used to be big, TikTok is even bigger right now, it’s completely impossible to actually avoid seeing anything from it. And then there’s YouTube with their shorts.