Signups opened this week for Loops, a short-form looping video app from the creator of Instagram alternative Pixelfed, reports TechCrunch.

  • @precarious_primes@lemmy.ml
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    2821 month 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.

        • @NineMileTower@lemmy.world
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          461 month ago

          Millions upon millions disagree. Some people are alcoholics and some people can enjoy a drink now and then. It’s the same with short form video content. Not everyone is an addict and I like that I can search something and actually get answers instead of an article or 10 minute video begging for subscribers and 1/3 of the video being an intro.

            • lad
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              If only I could get addicted to something socially acceptable in under 35 minutes, like doing chores, or at least maths

          • @fubo@lemmy.world
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            261 month ago

            For what it’s worth, getting in the habit of making excuses for one’s use is part of alcoholism.

          • @praxis_jack@lemmy.world
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            630 days ago

            Right, exactly this. Also not ALL of the stuff that’s shortform is brain rot or nonsense. There’s so many different people doing so many different things and if you give it a chance enough to find the things you like it can be as enjoyable as a long form YouTube video or whatever form of media you do consider to be more respectable than short form videos. Dismissing ALL short form content is just silly. And sure if you actually just don’t enjoy it than that’s your thing.

            • lad
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              You’re right that there is a lot of good content, too. The problem is that a platform doesn’t care as long as you stay and watch, also you’ll need quite a lot of effort to find your own good content. So when I come to YouTube for something and end up watching more, I always know that I failed to YouTube trying to rip me off

        • SkaveRat
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          141 month ago

          also not a fan of them, but people are enjoying it. so by definition it’s not boring for them

      • FenrirIII
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        561 month ago

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

      • @precarious_primes@lemmy.ml
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        261 month 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.

        • @Frozengyro@lemmy.world
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          191 month ago

          I was at a party with a small group of friends recently. We were all talking in a group and then one guy started watching tik/insta/whatever with the volume on. Everyone kinda looked at each other like wtf? I asked our friend if he wanted to borrow my headphones to watch that. He took the hint and rejoined the conversation. I still was gobsmacked someone would do that while hanging out with people.

        • @iheartneopets@lemm.ee
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          530 days ago

          Next time I’m in an airport food court I’ll try to really take in the view of the cinnabon next to the starbucks.

      • M137
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        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.

        • @NineMileTower@lemmy.world
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          228 days ago

          TikTok DOES have videos of interesting, cool, fun, and even educational things. If the algorithm has you on garbage, it’s because of what you watch.

      • @zingo@sh.itjust.works
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        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 been lifted from your shoulders.

        • @NineMileTower@lemmy.world
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          261 month ago

          I’m 37 with 2 kids. Sometimes I watch short form videos to kill time when bored. I’m aware of the fact that it’s not great for me. I also drink too much caffeine.

    • @TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world
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      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.

      • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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        130 days 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.

    • @jdeath@lemm.ee
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      81 month 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!

    • Echo Dot
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      429 days 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.

      • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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        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.

    • Tux
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      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.

      • JoYo
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        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.

        • @ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
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          91 month ago

          The boosting of propaganda and the identification, tracking and exploitation of government targets.

          People in key government positions are still people like us and they love social media too. Having an app on their phone doing data mining can identify people of interest and then collect data, target and compromise them. Even without the app on a government issued phone they can identify key people using their personal phones and then target them for more sophisticated surveillance.

      • Aatube
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        As a Chinese person, no. Chinese version is just censored more. Both are good as far as format goes.

      • @EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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        31 month 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.

    • @zingo@sh.itjust.works
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      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.

      PS: I am old too.

  • @yogurtwrong@lemmy.world
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    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

    • @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      You can’t really get addicted to fedi

      Hmm… anxiously eyeing my Lemmy post history…

      • @CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
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        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.

        • @cmbabul@lemmy.world
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          I’m kinda in line with you, but I have noticed that there are more days and even weeks if I’m busy where I never look at Lemmy. I don’t think I went a full day without Reddit unless I specifically decided to for like a trip with an SO or family

      • Sabata
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        1130 days ago

        You can’t really get addicted to fedi

        Phew, I was getting a bit worried.

      • Rob200
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        530 days 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.

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

      When I joined facebook around 2008-09, 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.

    • @GluWu@lemm.ee
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      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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        I don’t think algorithms themselves are to blame 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.

    • tired_n_bored
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      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’

    • @Broken@lemmy.ml
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      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.

    • @Bogasse@lemmy.ml
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      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.

  • @conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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    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.

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

  • @Soapbox1858@lemm.ee
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    681 month ago

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

    • Rob200
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      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.

      • @Soapbox1858@lemm.ee
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        I watch a ton of YouTube. I love it for entertainment and some news. I absolutely hate YouTube for tutorials or guides though. If I’m trying to figure out how to fix a computer issue, I just want to read about it and have screenshots I can look at. I don’t want to have to constantly pause a damn video or scroll back and forth to find info.

        As far as tiktok style videos go I just hate everything about them. I hate the auto play, I hate the vertical aspect ratio, I hate the stupid auto voiceovers, I hate the dumb floating captions and comments overlay, I hate the lack of volume adjustment or the ability to pause and rewind or seek. I hate the types of brainrot content that people make to work the algorithm. I hate that the format has infested YouTube and IG with no real way to be rid of it.

        • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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          Agreed, except youtube is great for any guides on stuff like vehicle maintenance. Want to know how to do something on your car? It’s almost guaranteed there’s a youtube video walking you through the whole process.

          • @Soapbox1858@lemm.ee
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            Agreed. Automotive repair is a big exception to my video tutorial hatred. It just makes more sense as it’s something being worked on in 3 dimensions. It would probably work well for home improvement stuff as well.

        • Rob200
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          If you hate the content, find out other types of content that does work with the short videos. Surely you could find some kind of use from it? From the videos being short it has time saving potential particularly I can see that atleast.

      • @Telorand@reddthat.com
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        I think if you’re just looking for quick news breaks then it can be useful…

        No, even then, that format is even worse. Good journalism often has a nuance and detail to it. The short-format video nonsense barely has enough time to get through a headline and a broad summary.

        The 24h news cycle is bad enough without trying to shorten it further to 90sec ragebait clips.

        • Rob200
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          I addressed that actually. I said if you wanted more detail then youtube or peertube might be better.

          But if you just want a quick glance, then that’s why I said then maybe the short form content might be preferred.

  • @Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    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.

      • @toastal@lemmy.ml
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        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.

        • @Charzard4261@programming.dev
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          Of all the reasons to hate these messaging apps, it’s because messages last forever? I’d get it if you were concerned that private companies don’t really delete your messages, but you know the average person using these apps actually does want their messages to last?

          • @toastal@lemmy.ml
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            Privacy is one part. The cost of joining & maintaining a server on the network is the other. Many servers have shut their doors due to expensive hosting. If you are lenient on how many messages need to actually be stored on the server for archives, self-hosting is now much more accessible which leads to a healthier, more decentralized network since more nodes can afford to join.

            You can still creating your own archives in your clients or on your specific server via s2s communications, but Matrix has this as a network requirement for eventual consistency. You can’t have the “search all messages in the last 5 years” feature without eventual consistency—but this is the point I am trying to make: copying the Slack/Telegram/Discord model makes this a requirement to have in a decentralized sense which costs way too much. Step back & reassess if copying this model is the right call. We were fine last decade without this.

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          Drag wants the chat history to persist for eternity. Just two weeks ago, drag pulled up a 3 year old quote from one of drag’s friends to make a point in a discussion.

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            Drag can archive it locally just fine or on Drag’s own server if using a different protocol. Is it worth storing hundreds of thousands of messages & attachments that price out self-hosting & low-spec hosters & medium-sized communities on a budget? These storage costs add up quickly & without lots of nodes, the network is no longer federated but held by a few mega hosts like Matrix.org & a sprinkling of single-user hosts. I have seen many servers shut down due to costs. This tradeoff just isn’t worth it for a triving, decentralized platform (Mastodon suffers similar duplication issues).

    • @Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      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

      • @Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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        I did that exact same thing with Twitter about seven years ago and I still don’t understand why someone would use it

        • @Tattorack@lemmy.world
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          Twitter is trash, on the basis that it tries to create “engagement” as much as possible. Any engagement. So it’ll force a bunch of hot topics and rage fuel down your throat.

          However, as an artist, I kind of need a platform like Twitter. Thankfully there are alternatives. I stopped using twitter quite a while ago now.

    • @Amanduh@lemm.ee
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      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

    • @irotsoma@lemmy.world
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      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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        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.

        • @Tattorack@lemmy.world
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          Yeah, exactly. Not everything needs to be experienced. Not experiencing something doesn’t mean being ignorant of its consequences.

      • @Tattorack@lemmy.world
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        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.

        • @cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
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          To be fair, Snapchat is still better than tiktok, because you can actually communicate with friends. Their spotlight is as much brainrot as it gets

          • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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            And very few people (at least people my age) are still on Snapchat. They all moved to Instagram stories years ago. I finally deleted my Snapchat account a couple months back, because the only reason I was still using it was to trade pictures with a friend of our cats.

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

    • @literally_a_dog@lemm.ee
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      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

    • @derek@infosec.pub
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      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.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      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?

    • @Toneswirly@lemmy.world
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      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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    Hmmm…

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    This license includes our use of your name, company name, and franchise name, as applicable, and any of the trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, and personal and commercial images you provide.

    from https://loops.video/legal/terms-of-service

  • @Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • @DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
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      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.

    • Echo Dot
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      429 days ago

      Not that that has anything to do with them of course.

    • @YeetPics@mander.xyz
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      329 days ago

      loops doesn’t outright hand things over for third parties for that purpose.

      Hey, check it out; it’s the thing loops said buried in the middle of your paragraph highlighting what other parties can or will do.

  • @sudoer777@lemmy.ml
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    TikTok is popular because it’s addicting, not because it’s useful, so I don’t understand why anyone would use this.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      TikTok is popular because it’s addicting, not because it’s useful

      TikTok is profitable because it is addictive. But the idea that short-form video is less useful than print or radio is flawed.

      I don’t understand why anyone would use this.

      For the same reason someone would turn on the TV, download a podcast, or pick up a magazine.

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      329 days ago

      If it doesn’t work out, it doesn’t work out. It seems like an idea worth trying. What is there to lose?

  • AItoothbrush
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    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.

    • @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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      1029 days ago

      My biggest problem with short form content is I want to pick what I’ll watch based on the uploader, title and thumbnail, not be algorithmically fed videos I may or may not be interested in. All of the video providers are going straight for the algorithm so I have zero interest.

      The algorithm won’t know what kind of content I’m in the mood for so I want to be in control to choose. The algorithm also likes to try to feed me content by some creators who aren’t worth my time and I don’t want to watch one second of their videos

      • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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        429 days ago

        Especially repost bots, engagement bait, or just plain misinformation. It’s rampant on Instagram.

        • @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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          129 days ago

          In recent months YouTube has been suggesting content that screams “meninist/right wing onboarding” so if I just watched whatever it recommended I might be in a very different place right now…

    • teft
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      Short form content ruins people’s attention span. I’ll pass.

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

      You’re just waving away an important fact, which is that shorts and their equivalents are notoriously known for killing attention spans and disrupting the management of dopamine in the brain, causing depression in particular.

      We are no longer simply in the traditional custom of the elderly who despise the activities of the younger generations, we are talking about health.

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        While true, how is that any different to the arguments that were used for TV? Additionally, Lemmy is a social network in the same way that Reddit is. Is this not also dangerous?

        As has been the recommendation for practically everything for the four decades I’ve been on this earth, moderation is key. Instead of hating new media, either regulate it (if the evidence is truly that great) or treat it with healthy moderation.

        Let’s be blunt here. Most of the people in this thread aren’t worried about health. They don’t like short-form video/foreign-owned companies/things they didn’t grow up with, and their elitism is getting the better of them instead of them letting people like what they want to like.

        • ugjka
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          I made a rule that i only do social media on desktop pc. Phone is only for emails and rss feeds. Seems to work

        • Waryle
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          While true, how is that any different to the arguments that were used for TV?

          Television is bad because it is a passive activity, but it is less harmful than the continuous ingestion of micro-videos. But I don’t see what it has to do here.

          Additionally, Lemmy is a social network in the same way that Reddit is. Is this not also dangerous?

          What’s the connection? I didn’t mention Reddit.

          As has been the recommendation for practically everything for the four decades I’ve been on this earth, moderation is key. Instead of hating new media, either regulate it (if the evidence is truly that great) or treat it with healthy moderation.

          This would be to ignore the particularly addictive nature of this kind of content. It would be like comparing apples to Snickers: both are sweet, yes, but one is much more problematic.

          Let’s be blunt here. Most of the people in this thread aren’t worried about health

          That could be a point, but I’m pretty sure that if you ask anybody, the main reason given would be that it makes you stupid. But I can agree that this opinion would not necessarily be based on anything other than the eternal contempt for novelty as video games or manga were, for example, before they became popular.

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      A distributed service is much less vulnerable to being bought up by a single narcissistic billionaire who can ruin the online experience of millions of people at once.

      A distributed service like Lemmy is spread out over 600 Instances in countries all over the world. If someone buys the most popular Lemmy Instance and wrecks it, those users can simply move to the same communities on the second or third or fourth most popular Instance and the original Instance will wither and die. This also works for communities with power tripping moderators. You can quickly find out through a search which community is the “real” one by the number of subscribers it has.

      • @EnderMB@lemmy.world
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        But again, what tangible benefit does that have for the average user? They don’t give a fuck about billionaire ownership, moderation, or where an “instance” or server is located.

        • NutWrench
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          Well, you should care about it because that’s how online communities get ruined. Case in point: Twitter has become a propaganda tool for an apartheid-loving fascist since he bought it.

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            Why should a user care about the health of an online community? To them it should “just work”.

            (I’m being purposely facetious here, because the average person really doesn’t care about this shit. When Twitter no longer serves its purpose to them they just leave and go to the next place)

            • @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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              Why should a person who goes to the park care about the park?

              If people are dumping trash everywhere and all the plants and animals are dying, I assume you wouldn’t like to spend much time there anymore.

              Sure another park might be opened, but constantly changing parks isn’t what you want to do long term. If someone buys up the basketball court and turns it into a cesspool of hate, you can unsubscribe from that court and remove it from your park. Adding another one that is nicer, without completely going to a new park.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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          329 days ago

          But again, what tangible benefit does that have for the average user?

          You have more control over your front-page content. If you don’t want to get a particular feed, you unsubscribe from it.

    • @minstrel@lemmy.eco.br
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      Federation can solve the danger zone content for you, how about a federation network with just kids content, other with more adult ones, etc to the just nsfw isolated from each others?

      • @EnderMB@lemmy.world
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        That’s…actually a really good use case for something like this. I’d argue that a recommendation algorithm that tailors to the best content a given federated service can provide for their use-case is probably a better source than what you’d get from a single source of truth that could give you everything and nothing.

    • @linearchaos@lemmy.world
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      I don’t think they’ll be able to do any type of direct competition for TikTok with a lack of advertising and payments You’re not going to draw quality creators. Decentralized algorithm sounds like a nightmare to manage.

      However one place they will have some advantage is censorship. Anything that’s not explicitly illegal Will be a hell of a lot harder to stamp out. Moderation will probably be very light.

    • @jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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      Authwalls, data sovereignty, self controlled open source algorithms for finding content without manipulation by corporations, etc

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      129 days ago

      who feel superior to those that like one form of media over their preferred media

      I don’t watch the TikToks. I get my information from a source I know I can trust.

      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?

      I might argue that the ability to curate your own content, rather than being plugged into the Main Feed that just front-loads whatever the highest bidder wants shoved into your eyeballs, is a relative improvement to the current Facebook/Google ad-supported algorithm model.

      But in the end, it just gives more weight to advertisers and influencers. You have to lure people into subscribing (like old school newspapers/radio/TV had to do) rather than buying visual real estate directly in their eye-line. You’re still going to have InfoWars and Drudge Report and Joe Rogan tier content. Its just something you’re going to be baited into opting into rather than struggling to opt out of.

      But it will keep you using the Fediverse as a model longer, because you feel like you’ve got a degree of control (I don’t have to listen to Rogan if I don’t want to). Whereas services like YouTube and Facebook are forcing their users to choose between getting injected with the cheapest, hackeyest swill or to switching providers.

    • katy ✨
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      the benefit i can see is that instead of having to share out to other social media, you can just see it in any fediverse account you have thanks to activity pub which eliminates one of the barriers to being viral.

      that said i don’t think it will get mainstream appeal.

    • Fitik
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      I got this email 5 days ago and nothing since

      Hi @Fitik, We’re thrilled to welcome you to Loops.video! We’re in the process of onboarding all our new users, and we can’t wait for you to experience the magic of short looping video. Keep an eye out for another email from us later tonight or tomorrow (depending on when you signed up). It will have all the details you need to get started, including how to create your first Loop. Welcome to the Loops community! Regards, The Loops Team

    • @DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
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      I got an email that said to keep an eye out for another email lol. Glad I’m one step ahead of everyone else

    • Green Wizard
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      330 days ago

      Thought I put in the wrong email or something and was super confused for a while myself 😁

    • @pushECX@lemmy.world
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      130 days ago

      Haven’t gotten mine, either. Email said I’d get an invite like that night, but one never came.

  • RiQuY
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    Isn’t it just a Pixelfed instance but yellow?

      • RiQuY
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        I was legit asking if it just was a Pixelfed instance or a fork of the project with new features.

        • @rando@lemmy.ml
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          Same Dev, different product (name and features) , codebase maybe similar/same.

        • Illecors
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          It is created by the samw dev as pixelfed - wouldn’t be surprised if parts were reused to bootstrap quickly.

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