There is always Loops
TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover
Submitted 19 hours ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/news/867958/tiktok-upscrolled-app-us-takeover
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7112@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
deleted@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
You get to watch a couple of videos only without logging in. No search.
Yikes.
mp3@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Sadly no way to host your own instance yet, but it does look promising.
ryper@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
The git repo has a server installation guide.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 14 hours ago
IIRC that’s old news and you can now self host and there are other instances up.
Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world [bot] 6 hours ago
No one uses loops. That Dan dude went all in on such a silly thing. Won’t be surprised if itit dies in two years or becomes a zombie project.
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
Here’s an idea. How about we abandon ragebait shortform slop/garbage aggregators entirely, and stop rewarding them with excessive device permissions and personal data.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
How about we abandon ragebait shortform slop/garbage aggregators entirely
In my day, we listened to AM Talk Radio! 16 hours a day, to and from work! None of this prissy little short form phone slop, no sir. It was three hour long shifts of Rush Limbaugh, Don Imus, Doug “The Greaseman” Tracht, and Sean Hannity. I earned my hate honestly, by fiddling with a little dial on my walkman and getting five commercials about cigars and dick pills every eight minutes. I got to hear bad riff tracks about how Japan was taking over our economy produced on a AKAI S900 that had been dropped down a flight of stairs. I didn’t know these people even had faces until Limbaugh showed up as a talking head for the NFL for a few months.
The very fucking idea that these stupid petulant spoiled woke lib fuck-around find-out kids are getting their news from a five minute long vertical visual display? OOOOOOOOoh it makes me SO MAD! I hate 'dem kids. I hate’m!!!
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 1 hour ago
Yeah, let’s not do any of that shit either.
merdaverse@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
I tried it for an hour or so and it’s absolutely filled with Nazis. One of them was criticizing Elon Musk and Trump for not being nazi enough. No thanks.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
They’re leaving like redditors to Lemmy. There’s dozens of them!
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
It’s more like Twitter to BlueSky, which was a pinch more.
FukOui@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Oh come on. Another centralised social media service that could be compromised. Wtf is wrong with these people
E_coli42@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
99% don’t know what the Fediverse is. I can’t blame them for jumping ship to Upscrolled since it’s what they have heard of.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
And me, living in the dark woods of Lemmy and Mastodon, have never, until now, heard of this ‘upscrolled’. I really like my ignorance-laced way of life.
FirmDistribution@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I think it’s hard to host a video-focused social media on the fediverse, I imagine it would have a high cost to maintain.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Build it on top of Bittorrent. If you like a post, you’re seeding it. When you want to stop seeding it, your like goes away.
Then popular things will have a large pool of seeds mitigating much of the bandwidth cost to the instance host.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
At least they are showing a willingness to move
CluckN@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yeah how come they won’t hop to a tankie filled content desert that is Lemmy? Where else will they find Facebook memes and US politics?
ripcord@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Well because why would someone look at Lemmy as a TikTok replacement
FirmDistribution@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Not federated. Nothing stops this app from getting worse in the future, right?
mrdown@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I trust my palestinian brother who created it
AmidFuror@fedia.io 14 hours ago
If they're brown, they can't let you down.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Is this like UpDog?
DeltronZero@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
I looked it up in the App store out of curiosity and holy crap that app almost as bad as TikTok for privacy. Though I suppose people jumping ship from TikTok aren’t too concerned about data privacy or else they wouldn’t have been using TikTok in the first place.
fort_burp@feddit.nl 9 hours ago
An Australian app so you can say “Epstein” on this one but still not “stop the genocide and colonisation of Palestine”.
E_coli42@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Isn’t upscrolled created by a Palestinian? I doubt he’d be okay with censoring a genocide against his people.
Psythik@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Are these people unaware that YouTube Shorts is a thing?
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
I am and that is why I actively avoid.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 hours ago
No, they are just keenly aware that YouTube Shorts is shit by comparison.
Psythik@lemmy.world 56 minutes ago
It’s literally the same thing
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Larry Ellison tool over Tiktok to stifle anti israel and pro Palestine voices and the NPCs thought it was all about China.
Told you so.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 17 hours ago
They are switching in huge numbers. Literally dozens!
btsax@reddthat.com 12 hours ago
Is “remain ‘impartial’ to political agendas” a dogwhistle for “tolerates Nazis” or have I just become too cynical
nforminvasion@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
No you’re not too cynical. You’re paying attention
Botanicals@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Wow the ads for this app keep appearing! It will be another blue sky in less than a year
ripcord@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
So, better than TikTok?
Botanicals@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Low bar but sure!
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
So, from the old brain rot to a new brain rot? Cool!
Samsy@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
Ahh the topic for zero Lemmy/Fediverse fucks given.
m3t00@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
TikTokers. thought i had the best weed
dukemirage@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
So when it was owned by China with the same spiral of destructive propaganda it was fine? on
Deceptichum@quokk.au 17 hours ago
Presumably when China asked for your immigration status or sexual orientation, which they didn’t, it wasn’t to send you to the camps.
So yeah, for Americans it would be worse.
mrdown@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It will get worse than in China. It will be a tool to protect dictatorship in the usa, the american gestapo and protecting Israeli genocide
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Was tiktok trying to prevent people from talking about the PedoTUS’s best bud Jeff? Or is that part cool with you?
dukemirage@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I’m not that deep into MAGA lore that I’d knew what PedoTUS means or who’s Jeff and I’m sure TikTok sucks more than ever, but my point is, it always sucked infernally, from day one, and never should have been used in the first place.
itsathursday@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
How is the change any worse than the current state? Isn’t this all just propaganda anyway to tank the value after the change?
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
They’re blocking the word ‘Epstein’ in DMs and also asking people to list their immigration status.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Isn’t this all just propaganda anyway to tank the value after the change?
What?!
Larry Ellison bought it last week, bad things you’re hearing isn’t “propaganda”…
It’s people who know what is happening, or even just who Larry Ellison is
itsathursday@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Chinese vs US propaganda. When you are being played you are being played.
artyom@piefed.social 13 hours ago
TikTok is now US-controlled media. They’re doing basically the same thing China does, using it to spread propaganda and suppress critical news. That’s why Biden wanted it gone but Trump, as usual, undid all of the progress that was made and used it to increase his personal wealth and power.
dil@piefed.zip 18 hours ago
idrc since the algorithim sucks on all, tried desperately to make my feed only show me edm and 3d modeling/animation content, nope, I see the same controversial low effort garbage everyone sees
itsathursday@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Thanks for the downvotes lemmings, only asking a valid question
Cherry@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Hopefully jumping between different model but same shit highlights the bigger picture. And maybe just some of them may even say enough is enough.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 17 hours ago
It may just be a hype but I’m upvoting it.
Furbag@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Literally anything but FOSS, huh?
Out of the frying pan and into a cold frying pan.