As long as it is opt in. I fucking hate the short video format with a passion.

Hey, sorry, saw your response only now.

Maybe try again in case you haven't since your answer? I can use it and watch videos by just logging into http://loops.video/

Is it like some FOSS Tiktok alternative?

https://fedidb.com/software/loops is the only one I found so far

Also https://loops.fediverse.observer/list

I have no idea but I doubt there any, federation just happened. Could be wrong tho

I have Seen a post that it should be able by now, yeah.

Edit:

Installation-Guide: https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server?tab=readme-ov-file

Didnt host my own instance yet, but it looks like you could build your own.Would also make sense because its v1-beta release.

Looks like it

https://loops.fediverse.observer/list

https://fedidb.com/software/loops

I donated sometime during the big fundraiser in January or so. It took a while but they did release server code a few months ago, and it's nice to see that it'll federate with other services soon.

Elaborate:))

We're here.

To be fair, you can simply selfhost MinIO.

There is one you have to sign up for on their site. I'm assuming it'll be GA shortly.

Like this?

Android app update is the next thing. They are active on Discord.

Loops doesn't have an algorithm, it just shows you the most recent videos uploaded to Loops. At least, in the For You tab anyways.

Would you say you were..... out of the loops? 🌞 😎

Yeah, short form content isn't really my cup of tea either. I'm glad it exists though :)

I don't mind short form, but I loathe vertical videos. But I guess these days those are basically 1 in the same.

I think someone told me in another thread a while back discussing loops that at the time it was only like certain libraries and whatnot? I wasn't sure if that was still the case, or if that person was right, or what 🤷‍♂️

I'm not an especially technical person so I don't really remember details though 😅

It launched without being decentralized and without federation. Might've been a mistake.

Weird...

To be fair..

I did the thing where I signed up and got the app and promptly never used it

I don't particularly like short form content (at all) but I was hoping that there'd be some relevant connection between the platforms

The app look like an alpha or less. Barely usable

I have been doing some uploading there for a few mths. My biggest gripe is that they support 60 second videos, but anything over 15 seconds (for me) never finishes uploading.

I have seen the repeats too though.

Or implementing the fundamental feature of searching videos by keywords and hashtags

I'd just try some random general instance on each service. Especially if you want to try them. You can still move later!

For Mastodon, I'd recommend just joining any large instance that's been around for a while. You can always move accounts if you decide on a different one later. Mastodon makes it pretty easy, and can automatically notify your followers if you hop to a different one. You can also run your own with masto.host for like 6 bucks a month. I'm on pixelfed.social, and been pretty happy with it.

I've been trying Mastodon for as long as Lemmy but it's not nearly as good due to the "who to follow" problem and the lack of ability to sort a topic by amount of interaction. E.g. can sub to say #Canada but within that, there's no good way to surface highly faved or replied-to posts. The upcoming Starter Packs should help a lot because you'd be able to follow bunch people who tend to discuss some topic, which means you'd get the more active posts in your feed by means of those people intercting with it. It doesn't replace the need for sorting algos but it addresses the problem partially. Perhaps it would be good enough. Circles (same concept) worked wonders in Google+.

That's just how the fediverse works. Your instance only know accounts from other instances by boosting or directly searching for them. Not seeing most accounts from newly federated instances is by design.

nope.

Loops, the platform, has nothing to do with Meta. Also, that article is over a year old.