It needs an app (edit: that is available through Play store or the corresponding apple shop)

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

I've seen other people on Mastodon/Bluesky mention that the site takes an 'anti-censorship' approach to moderation, so there's a bunch of far right people doing Nazi stuff on there.

There is absolutely no ethical consumption under capitalism.

Testing linking @ordos@loops.video

Since it's federated, is there a better way to share or a way to shrink for browser people?

I mean just look at how many people still use reddit and discord.

And Twitter

I don't think they made it addictive. Making an app addictive requires a lot of labour with people from different areas.

• !movies@piefed.social
• !television@piefed.social

Not sure if users can host their own servers yet, but once that becomes available then I don't see what would stop you.

People don't want an addicting, toxic, alienating, depressing, billionaire-owned platform.

They want a addicting, toxic, alienating, depressing, non-billionaire-owned platform ... Apparently.

I can't stand shorts, tick-tock, or any of those videos. The videos I watch are usually comprehensive, longer than 10 mins, and I pause, rewind, slow down ect the video.

healthy online habits

This kind of pseudo-science is exactly why TikTok is controlled by zionists, why age-gates are coming to Linux, etc, etc, etc.

Short form is cool because it's like constrained writing.

Tiktok was pretty great while it was just silly videos.\ But it's not short form anymore so it's full of political essays and propaganda.

I kinda hope that loops is more like vine than tiktok or vertical YouTube. But it'll probably be up to the instance to govern video length.

Exactly. Ethically sourced brainrot is still brainrot

I hate TikTok too, but it's not going away without comprehensive legislation regulating social media. Until then, a fediverse alternative that's not ruled by corporate algorithms would at least be a form of harm reduction. Think of it like a Safe Injection Site program; it's not great that they're still using, but at least they're getting clean needles.

Yes, exactly. It's just a way to successfully manipulate people to believe how you want them to.

And we don't want leftists doing that, so let's make it a moral failing.

Exactly. I have ZERO desire to use this app, or even PixelFed for that matter. Does that platform even have a legit user base or just bots?

Oh get over yourself

Same!

Might just look that way because it's using the default theme of Tailwind CSS, which is coincidentally the weapon of choice for sloptimized vibe code.

It's tik tok again, but after you finish your first tik tok feed completely.

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.

To use it to deprogram the next generation of fascist

the short video format was designed as being additive,

lmao. designed by whom? additive to what? cool story.

Short text can be as afdictive as short videos yrt one seems ok and the other not