A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source

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• precarious_primes@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe I’m just old, but I traveled by plane recently (I don’t fly very often) and seeing everyone around me mindlessly scrolling short-form video content was shocking. Looked identical to the people in the space ship in WALL-E.

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  • NineMileTower@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dude, it’s the airport. It’s boring as fuck.

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    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So are 10 second videos.

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    • FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can have tons of fun at the airport as long as you don’t mind getting on the no-fly list.

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    • precarious_primes@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fair, but I traveled for a music festival and saw lots of people pulling up their phones to get a few hits of TikTok/insta when there was a small lull in action. And most of them were with friends. Just enjoy your surroundings.

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    • zingo@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The way you write tells me you are young.

      The older you get (and having a family of your own) the more you enjoy the quiet moments, just like the ones when you sit in an airport, waiting for the plane.

      It’s really feels like a weight has lifted from your shoulders.

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    • M137@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And there are so many things you could do even just on your phone than mindless, objectively bad for your mental health shit like tiktok style content. Watch actual videos about interesting, cool and/or fun things, play a game, talk with a friend etc.

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  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What tf you want them to do?

    I don’t see how reading magazines, what people used to do, is any better.

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    • whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not an expert, so take this as far as you’d like — reading has real benefits to our brains such as improving vocabulary, improving critical thinking skills, and improving focus. I don’t think short form videos give us the same brain benefits.

      Here’s an article from Piedmont health on the benefits of reading. I haven’t seen such an article for short form videos, but am open to it if there is one.

      www.piedmont.org/…/health-benefits-of-reading

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You don’t see how reading is better than watching a video?

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  • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m glad there’s still a place left for us old curmudgeons that isn’t overrun by normies yet. i saw somebody suggest hosting things on tor, just for the purpose of keeping normies away from it. hilarious but probably would work great!

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    WALL-E was depressingly prescient.

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  • trespasser69@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    TikTok has 2 versions:

    One is what we use. People mindlessly scroll brainrot contents with algorithm desinged to as addictive as possible.

    Another one is chinese version. It has actualy useful and educative content, but its China only.

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    • JoYo@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t think the national security risk from tiktok is people watching it while waiting an hour for the plane to actually take off.

      it’s from the clear boosting of propaganda.

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    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not in china and I get chess, math and physics videos.

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    • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Regardless of whether the content is “useful and educative” or “brainrot”, I just don’t seem how you can comprehend rapidly-changing and very short content at all, this just seems unnatural. Is that how ADHD feels like? And not like you can get comprehensive knowledge from such bite-sized videos anyway, maximum disjointed factoids.

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  • TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Instagram has been getting me with this. I like to post sometimes, but my friends and I recently compared our screen time stats and I couldn’t believe I was regularly wasting hours a day mindlessly scrolling IG. I uninstalled the app and will just occasionally post from my computer.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I took it off my home screen and started using one of those screen time apps. I check it two or three times a day now, instead of however many it was before.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As opposed to doing what exactly?

    If you are upset by the video length I can provide you plenty of videos of absolute tosh that are over 18 minutes long.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Reading, maybe. People don’t read actual literature as much as they used to.

      A long video would also be better for you, yes, instead of being designed to catch your attention and keep giving you dopamine hits.

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  • zingo@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, fucking sheep!

    I also thought about those scenes in Wally when I was walking the dog the other day. Soon all of us will float around in armchairs and never step outside.

    Welcome to the new world.

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• yogurtwrong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t think TikTok community is compatible with the idea of fediverse

  TikTok exists to give you large floods of endorphins via either an algorithm trained to your interests or by giving you big numbers. And this is not exclusive to TikTok, this is just how modern “social” media works, it’s the sole reason why bluesky succeeded more than mastodon

  Modern social media is mostly a hive mind of people affirming each other driven by algorithms. Fediverse on the other hand, always boils down to a old fashioned usenet style network made just so people can talk with each other. You can’t really get addicted to fedi

  I wasn’t really alive during the wild west internet (im 19). I got into the net during the transition from forums to modern social media and reddit was my first social. I tried getting into facebook and instagram because everyone else was there but I just didn’t like it much.

  I don’t know why but “the algorithm” is really boring for me. I only tried algorithm driven feeds on reddit (after u/spez) and on tumblr but the recommendations were always extremely “fake”. Other sorting methods like “new” or “by most active” just feel more like as if there was someone on the other side of the keyboard

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can’t really get addicted to fedi

    Hmm… anxiously eyeing my Lemmy post history…

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    • CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’m not as addicted to Lemmy as I was with Reddit, because there aren’t as many comments and niche communities and an algorithm messing with me, but like I check Lemmy throughout each day and if I’m honest there’s not much purpose aside from getting that hit.

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    • Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can’t really get addicted to fedi

      Phew, I was getting a bit worried.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Could be worse. Could be flying squid.

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    • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Partly why I use Voyager with page numbers. Gives you a clear stop point.

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    • Rob200@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I had some days that I spent hours debating with people, other days I just chill and chat with people, particularly on Mastodon.

      and then theres… Lemmy, I was probably addicted to the hardest. The score system would keep me checking it and i’d be interested in keeping my score up high. I’d even argue that it made me a better human being.

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    • cyrixhero@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Me too😂

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    An interesting point, that a lot of younger people might not know: social media wasn’t always like this.

    When I joined facebook in 2009, it wasn’t algorithm driven, there weren’t even ads. You had a chronological feed of your friends’ interactions, so you could see if someone posts a photo, comments something, or shares a stupid quiz. It was a very-very different feeling compared to what we have now. It was useful and practical, but the enshittification killed it.

    I would never sign up for something like this today, absolutely useless - only reason I’m still there is the messaging app, which I use daily with most of my friends/family.

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  • GluWu@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s weird seeing how “the algorithm” has genuinely only made things worse. Falling into the YouTube rabbit hole was a thing, and it was entirely organic. From the loose connections of topics, you could start from any feel good funny video, and end in detailed documentary about MK Ultra.

    The best algorithm was no algorithm and there’s no way of ever going back to that. I feel pretty lucky to have experienced the internet before it became everything.

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    • stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t think algorithms themselves are to bland but what they are tuned for. While engagement/eyeball hours for the adserver is the prime metric the quality of experience will be subservient to it. If the algorithms could better measure your mood and stimulation levels and maximise for that the effect would be less toxic. Ideally if it realised you were just mindlessly consuming it could suggest maybe you’ve done enough today and to try something else. But that I fear that is not something the owners of the various ecosystems want.

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    • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      my favorite feel good funny videos are about Mk Ultra and the three letter agencies (IRS FDA MSG)

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  • tired_n_bored@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have been so happy since I’ve adopted the “intentional browsing” concept. It means I am the only one choosing what I want to see so I use NewPipe instead of YouTube, Mastodon instead of Twitter, Lemmy and a RSS reader instead of Reddit. My life has improved so much I am not even kidding. I feel ‘clean’

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    • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I would like to read an elaborate post about this!

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  • Broken@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think anything is un-addictable (making up words here). I do agree that the social media mindset and fedi are not compatible though, basically because of the algorithm concept.

    At the end of the day I hate all social media because they feed me what they think I want to eat. Regardless of how well they do that I hate the concept because I want to decide for myself what I want to partake in. Fedi allows that without getting in my way.

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  • Bogasse@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d be surprised if it wasn’t a bit more subtle than that. While the medium really facilitate the behavior that you describe, I’m pretty sure that it also hosts sane usages, creative content and positive communities.

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• conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They don’t have to sell or provide videos to third parties, because they can just do it themselves.

  That’s the nature of actual federation. It’s not private.

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We are literally training the future AI that will suppress mankind by our social media chats.

    Nice.

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    • ogeist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But they will have a mean onion dip recipe

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Im guessing it’s going to be missing all the features that make tiktok popular like duets and pedophilia.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not convinced the Fediverse is devoid of pedophilia, I think we all need to be wary of it whenever we see it.

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  • helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think you just perfectly described Roblox

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    • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think it’s scary how many of the mainstream platforms this joke could apply to.

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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The problem with tiktok is not close-source and being centralised. It is being tiktok

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    • toastal@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Same reason it is weird to want a FOSS copy of the UX of Slack/Telegram/Discord in Matrix instead of realizing you don’t need or want the chat history to persist for eternity. Good thing you can choose a different protocol/service in these cases.

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  • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Omg😱. Round of applause for Mr. Superior here!!!

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    • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ll take it. Thank you.

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  • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve been avoiding it for years and finally gave in in the moment of weakness. I uninstalled it very soon after because I hated the experience so much and never gave it another thought nor chance. xd

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    • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I did that exact same thing with Twitter about seven years ago and I still don’t understand why someone would use it

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  • irotsoma@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Amanduh@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • AWittyUsername@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How can you hate something that you’ve never tried?

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      for example by being aware that the format is harmful to psychological health

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    • mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pretty easily: that’s the whole point of the concept of “reputation”

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    • Texas_Hangover@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I dont have to be stabbed in the eye with a pen to know I wouldn’t enjoy it.

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    • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Vine was before Snapchat

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• Soapbox1858@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My problem with tiktok/reels/shorts is not that they aren’t federated. It’s the entire format/concept I hate.

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think I might like them better if they didn’t auto-play. I hate anything that auto-plays.

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  • Rob200@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think if you’re just looking for quick news breaks then it can be useful but if you’re looking for detailed content or lengthy movies, or skits. Something like Youtube would be more preferred. I think for me it depends on the content.

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• vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  TikTok gathering data and selling it to whoever is not the problem. It’s a problem.

  The problem of TikTok and many other social media is that it drains our energy and motivation. It’s like digital weed, creates the feeling that there’s no reason to change things. We can just consume things.

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  • literally_a_dog@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Barkbarkbark

    TikTok is designed to make you consume and not meaningfully engage. As complex as the algorithm is, users’ ability to participate in discussions is severely limited.

    ByteDance is capable of writing software that predicts what you want to see next, but it can’t write comment sorting, or basic threading like Reddit?

    The severe limitations in communication are deliberate. You’re not supposed to engage meaningfully, you’re supposed to look at it, feel something, and then scroll.

    One of the reasons I like seeing new social media startups (like Lemmy) is that the current offerings are harmful to us, and any challenge to them as the potential to make positive change.

    Bark

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  • derek@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s a problem. Absolutely. It’s not the problem though. I’m not sure the problem can be summarized so succinctly. This is the way I’ve been putting it:

    These are the top reasons humanity needs successful, decentralized, open social media platforms:

    1. Collecting and selling user’s private data is dangerous and unethical.
    2. Using that data to intentionally and directly manipulate user’s thinking is even worse.
    3. All of the major centralized social media companies have been proven to either allow these illicit information campaigns or coordinate them directly. TikTok is the focus right now but Sophie Zhang exposed Facebook for doing exactly what TikTok has been exposed for recently. Can you recall any meaningful consequences for Facebook? Do you think Facebook is now safe to use?
    4. It’s clear that most political leaders are either too ignorant, too corrupt, or too inept to meaningfully legislate against these problems.
    5. The concerned public can’t shut Pandora’s box. No one is coming to save us from big tech or the monied interests and nation-states that wield it.
    6. The concerned public can’t easily and legally audit the platforms big tech builds because they are closed and proprietary.
    7. Personal choice is not enough. Not using centralized social media increases personal safety but does little to curb its influence otherwise.

    These are listed by order of intuitive acceptance rather than importance. I find it aids the conversation.

    The best reasonable answer to these problems I’ve seen proposed is for the public to create an open and decentralized alternative that’s easier to use and provides a better user experience.

    Will that kind of alternative be a force for pure good? I’m not sure. To your point: I’m not convinced social media of any kind can be more than self-medication to cope with modernity. Then again I’ve had incredible and meaningful conversations with close friends after passing the bong around and spent time on Facebook/Reddit, and now Mastodon/Lemmy/etc, doing the same. Those interactions were uplifting and humanizing in ways that unified and encouraged all involved.

    I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle. We need to take care of each other, refuse pure hedonism, and protect the vulnerable (and we’re all varying degrees of vulnerable). At the same time: humans aren’t happy in sterile viceless productivity prisons. Creating spaces for leisure which do no harm in the course of their use isn’t just a nice idea… It’s necessary for a functional and happy society.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it drains our energy and motivation

    All this time, I thought the daily grind of employment - consuming 8-12 hours of my day for someone else’s profit - was what exhausted my free time, limited my opportunities for socializing, and drained my enthusiasm for local organizing. Turns out it was the fifteen minutes of free time between meetings checking current events that was to blame.

    It’s like digital weed

    So its palliative care for our lack of comprehensive healthcare, but even less effective at the job?

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  • Toneswirly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah man, Social Media Companies are at an evil genius level of greed. They are the ones creating the feeling of consuming a “digital weed,” as you call it. Blaming the users is tantamount to saying the world is polluted because people love cars, as if the oil and gas lobby isn’t cultivating that and profiting massively off of it.

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• Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ignoring the myriad of other issues listed in this thread, the bit about training AI is pretty misleading. It’s not hard to scrape webpages for whatever kind of data you like, even if loops doesn’t outright hand things over for third parties for that purpose.

  And the kind of people who are downloading the entire internet to train AIs are the type to be willing to just scrape without permission.

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  • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They are claiming not to train AI using your videos/info theirselves. I don’t think it’s misleading just because other people can scrape that info.

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• Schmerzbold@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hmmm…

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• sudoer777@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  TikTok is popular because it’s addicting, not because it’s useful, so I don’t understand why anyone would use this.

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• EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ITT: People in their mid-twenties or later, who feel superior to those that like one form of media over their preferred media.

  Elitism aside, I don’t really see what federation solves here. What benefits does federation offer the user? How does the recommendation algorithm give users what they want? How will a decentralised platform perform the kind of centralised events a platform like TikTok is known for?

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• AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Very cool that its federated but to be honest i just dont like this kind of short form content. I ratherd watch a youtube video.

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• RiQuY@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t it just a Pixelfed instance but yellow?

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• Pieisawesome@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Anyone actually got an email? I have signed up and haven’t gotten one all week :)

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• mark@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not interested in the short-video concept. But it’s a great name, though. Short, sweet, and doesn’t sound too “techy”, not too complicated to pronounce or spell.

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• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Who is going to pay to host all this content?

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Awesome! This sounds like a much better way for me to share the occasional video of either or both of my dogs being super cute on c/dogs (and on other non-Lemmy forums) than relying on an anonymous YouTube account.

  (I may have partially used this post as an excuse to share a video of one of my dogs being super cute.)

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• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Headline should say coming TO the Fediverse.

  “It’s coming for you!” has a more aggressive meaning.

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• Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yep. The world just needs more stupid videos from stupid people. Just federated.

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bröthër, whërë ärë my lööps?

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• brlemworld@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But will it have porn?

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• Voltage@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m still waiting for the further instructions they promised to send by mail lol

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• rodneylives@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I signed up for Loops the first day. I didn’t get an email confirmation until two days after, and I still haven’t been given a way to sign in.

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• angelmountain@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t really need any form of TikTok im afraid

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• JoYo@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  anyone actually get an account? i signed up as soon as it was announced a year or so ago and haven’t heard a peep.

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• Brown_dude69@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Go fediverse 😍

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• utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  (insert here the “The TikTok at home” meme format) So actually I did my own with PeerTube (self hosted server side) and Latrix (mobile client to live stream) and you can see the result at video.benetou.fr/w/p/hfPcHz1kCgnM6zKhfPrS4b (playlist of 6 short videos with progress over time).

  I’d argue it… works. Is it necessary or useful? Well I didn’t keep up with the format but it potentially can be. My point being… we already have quite a few tools in place.

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• Suavevillain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is pretty cool. I’ll check it out.

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• qui@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wanted an account, verification email is not arrived.

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• skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lemmy’s final boss…

  Then again, Lemmy and ActivityPub are (by design) wide open to anyone, including TenCent

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