Comment on Loops is Now on the App Store

termaxima@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Funny enough I tried a few videos without signing up, and it doesn’t seem as bad?

  Tiktok was putting me off because main content in its peak was “teenagers dancing.”

  Meanwhile the “average age in lemmy is 20 years older than reddit” rule applies to loops. I doubt they will ever have “npc streams.”

  Still dislike short-form content tho so I will pass, but pretty good community nonetheless.

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  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Can confirm. There are lots of “boring” videos on Loops. Like, check this out. Yes, it’s an entire channel dedicated to chickens. I mean, it’s nice and relaxing, but nowhere near as addicting and engaging as tiktok or instagram videos. I’ll still count that as a win.

    Regardless, @billinkc still rocks.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Tiktok was putting me off because main content in its peak was “teenagers dancing.”

    I mean it depends on what you want to get from social media. I would argue that things got worse afterwards when it stopped being teenagers dancing and started being right-wing influencers spewing their propaganda. Ultimately, social media should be made by the people contributing to it and how it develops depends on what the users want, not on what you want.

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  • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For now it seems to be mostly very “fediverse”.

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I do not understand the desire to have alternatives to the world‘s dumbest format. We had good video platforms that worked. Users had agency. Short form video stripped everything away that made the internet a great place ones. It‘s poison for society. It needs no alternatives. It just needs to implode.

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• RalfWausE@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well, it is what de create, right? Why not encouraging people creating short form videos that are decisively not brain-rot?

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It should be horizontal, amirite?

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  • termaxima@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That makes no difference. The problem is the length and the passive acceptance of what the app serves to you.

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  • sixty@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    KOLANAKI

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