Comment on Loops by pixelfied Is Doomed to Fail Because of Daniel Supernault
Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
I’m not even convinced that Loops was a good idea to begin with. Yes, sure, always nice to have fediverse alternatives of mainstream apps, but short-form videos like those on Tiktok wouldn’t have been successful if not for Tiktoks algorithm which is much, much better than even any of the competition. It’s really good at discoverability and being addictive. And Loops doesn’t have anything like this (and even if this is good depending on who you ask, it definitely doesn’t give Loops an advantage). Who even is the target audience of Loops?
BlueHat@lemmings.world 5 days ago
It’s been in development for 5 years. The audience is pretty much Tiktok refugees. Ironically it would be like the third biggest instance if it was part of the fediverse. Ironically loops’ traffic state is used as marketing