Comment on First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed

• Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean… maybe? Those are nice things of course, but what is the target audience for an app like this anyway? I don’t use TikTok anymore, but if I wanted to start using an alternative to it I would never consider something without an algorithm. The whole point - for me at least - is to waste time eating digital slop served to you by an algorithm so that you don’t have to know what you want to watch when you sit down and open it up. If I already knew what I wanted to watch I wouldn’t be on an app like this, I’d be searching up the video or subject on another platform.

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  • FrostyDog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You don’t know what you get though, even without an AI driven “engagement” algorithm. If the pace of new videos being uploaded is fast enough there will be no shortage of hours to mindlessly scroll (if that’s your goal). It gives everyone an equal chance to be discovered, and from there more popular videos will have their own tabs so you can see what other people like too. The short video format is plenty addictive without pushing for maximum retention, because there’s no reason to - other platforms do it to increase your screen time so they can show you more ads. That’s all it is. All it ever was. They don’t give a shit about you or your enjoyment(YouTube dislikes?), in fact, one method of raising engagement is to make you angry, they do this a lot. It works, it’s a lesson they learned from the effectiveness of rage baits.

    It’s honestly frustrating how so many people want the same old shit algorithmiclly based feed when we’ve finally gotten rid of the fucking disease to begin with.

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