We did it. After months of building, testing, and countless late nights, Loops is officially available on the App Store.
It's been quite a ride since October. We shipped OAuth support, launched the mobile beta, built a whole new project website, and kept adding features people actually wanted. The For
I guess it is an “improvement” that we can replace corporate brain rot with community brain rot, but this isn’t going to change my mind about short form video.
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 once. It‘s poison for society. It needs no alternatives. It just needs to implode.
Funny enough I tried a few videos without signing up, and it doesn’t seem as bad? It’s a HUGE improvement, in fact.
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.
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.
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.
For now it seems to be mostly very “fediverse”.
Well, it is what de create, right? Why not encouraging people creating short form videos that are decisively not brain-rot?
It should be horizontal, amirite?
That makes no difference. The problem is the length and the passive acceptance of what the app serves to you.
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