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
    6015·
    2 months 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.

    • Amanduh@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      I was there 3000 years ago when snapchat was brand new… those were some good times. Sending snaps to all your friends and staying in touch etc, before all the filters and stories and news etc it was great

    • irotsoma@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      2 months 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
        41·
        2 months 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
          5·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, exactly. Not everything needs to be experienced. Not experiencing something doesn’t mean being ignorant of its consequences.

      • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        2 months 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.

        • cows_are_underrated@feddit.orgEnglish
          21·
          2 months ago

          To be fair, Snapchat is still better than tiktok, because you can actually communicate with friends. Their spotlight is as much brainrot as it gets

          • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
            11·
            2 months ago

            And very few people (at least people my age) are still on Snapchat. They all moved to Instagram stories years ago. I finally deleted my Snapchat account a couple months back, because the only reason I was still using it was to trade pictures with a friend of our cats.