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This app could potentially supplant Tik Tok overtime. As Tik Tok’s censorship following it’s acquisition by US investors such as Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based MGX, and UpScrolled already having questionable ethics, this may be the path forward.
What is the point of recreating media format designed exclusively to grab attention as much as possible and monetize it?
I’d say it’s to help replace unhealthy addictions with a platform that’s smaller and less easy to fall into infinite scroll rabbit holes. Like nic-patches to stop smoking.
and monetize it
Have you used TikTok? If you had in the beginning, it was full of people doing history videos, diy, etc. I suspect it will be something like that. I don’t use it anymore, but it was great in the beginning,.I suspect that if you’re on Loops, especially at first, monetizing it isn’t your first thing. The meme communities are probably going to go nuts.
It’s getting there, but still needs a good amount of ui fixes. The below mentioned are my personal issues with the app.
All this being said I still use it. They are making progress and I hope they keep going.
It needs an app
And it needs to render uploaded videos to the maximum allowed file size. Regular people don’t know how to make their videos smaller. I only managed to do it by uploading to you tube the then downloading it from there. Then it was small enough to to be uploaded to loops
Also, easier sign up and more content
It needs an app
There is an app both for apple and android. Just scroll down the page a bit: https://joinloops.org/join-the-beta
loops has a app if you are talking about them, I just had to uninstall the previous to install the newest as it’s been awhile since I’ve used it.
It has an app, it is kinda weird how you get it though. When you click tk join it gives you the choice of app. It’s not on an app store for android. Not sure about apple. So for me updates dont seem to happen to it that I know of.
UpScrolled already having questionable ethics
Which questionable ethics? I’m out of the loop.
I’ve seen other people on Mastodon/Bluesky mention that the site takes an ‘self-censorship’ approach to moderation, so there’s a bunch of far right people doing Nazi stuff on there.
I have been on UpScrolled for about 23-25 days and have not seen any Nazi stuff. However, I keep my feed and the people I follow mainly about Anime and Palestine.
If there’s indeed Nazi stuff on it, I hope the developer removes it. Zionism and Nazi are both insanely shit ideologies that should have never come to existence.
That mixed with not having an algorithm, I’ve seen a lot of sexual stuff I was not looking for.
Seems already pretty solid. Was testing a bit in the last days: https://loops.video/@ordos Still very few users. But this could change as soon as the app is available in the app stores.
If this is another tool using ActivityPub, I’m gonna get mad.
…? Interesting thing to share on Lemmy…
It would be amazing to ditch the company control and so. The main problem is that it’s difficult to get users to join it. I mean just look at how many people still use reddit and discord.
And Twitter
Tbf Lemmy is still lacking on many things like media(comics, games, tv shows, cartoons, anime/Manga etc), Reddit right now is THE place aside from niche sites specific to each median, but as for Discord I agree, alternatives are not so hard there… Lemmy is getting there though.
Use Reddit for reading only; read and contribute to Lemmy.
Loops has a lot of bugs, but my biggest issue with it is the video quality is awful for anything with lots of motion, especially moving water. If I wanted videos without motion I’d take a picture. When I asked dansup about this his reply was “we’re happy with the quality”, glad he is, no one else is though. The app has had more “coming soon” announcements than anything actually materializing. I appreciate his vision and effort but not his delivery, and dear lawd his egotistical posts, yikes. I would love to see Loops turn into what he keeps promising but so far, it hasn’t.
Let us hope that it gets there one day.
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Yup and it’s closed source, it’s of course likely to be more lax for a time than Tik Tok&Instagram until it takes over…
That’s misleading, they plan on being open sourced according to pubs:
Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called Loops began accepting signups on its new platform for sharing short, looping videos. Still in the early stages, Loops is not yet open sourced, nor has it completed its integration with ActivityPub, the protocol that powers Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, and other federated apps.
However, both those efforts are in the works and when complete, will allow Loops to add another layer of social activity to the growing open social web known as the fediverse, which now has north of 11.6 million users and over 1 million monthly active users. (Mastodon accounts for roughly 65% of that activity.) Growth in this space has also encouraged other apps to adopt ActivityPub, like social magazine app Flipboard and Meta’s Threads. The latter is not yet fully integrated but already has more than 200 million monthly active users.
My apologies, I called UpScrolled closed source because it is, not Loops.
Wait, what’s this if it’s closed source? github.com/joinloops/loops-server
They’ve been promising it will be open source for a year now.
What is closed source ? Aren’t those up to date?
github.com/joinloops/loops-server#license
Loops Server is open-sourced software licensed under the AGPL license.
Microsoft will take its name.
and UpScrolled already having questionable ethics, this may be the path forward.
I am definitely Out of the loop on this.
I felt my back break when I went on the app and sorted by retro and saw stuff I didn’t think was that old.
UpScrolled is also for-profit right?
My problem with loops is I can only scroll four videos before it stops scrolling. No matter what. I’ve tested it a few times on different devices because I wanted to try moving friends off Tik Tok.
I can’t figure out why it just stops.
It’s not very helpful but I don’t get this issue, I can scroll for as long as I want and keep getting served content.
I definitely seem to be in the minority with this issue
Same!
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
No. No more Vines or Shorts and shit. It’s a fucking problem. Stop it.