loops (@loops@pixelfed.social)
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  • InfiniWheel@lemmy.oneEnglish
    621·
    14 days ago

    I still feel like they seem to be building a bit too much hype to what’s going to be just another type of social media in the fediverse with scarce posts made by almost exclusively tech enthusiasts

  • HighlyRegardedArtist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5615·
    14 days ago

    Hot take: let this brain rot format die already. If you cannot hold your attention for longer than a few minutes at a time, you might want to work on that instead of embracing it.

    • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyzEnglish
      232·
      14 days ago

      Do you not think some people doomscroll lemmy, only reading titles and looking at image posts?

      • HighlyRegardedArtist@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        13 days ago

        Sure, there are those people, but that’s not the point here. Lemmy doesn’t enforce some arbitrary short length to its posts in an attempt to force the users to engage more with the platform instead of the actual content. The same cannot be said of tiktok or twitter, for example.

      • foremanguy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        95·
        14 days ago

        Maybe but it’s not the point of it. An infinite scrollable shorts/tiktok like is meant to be doomscrolled

        • TacoSocks@infosec.pubEnglish
          51·
          14 days ago

          I watch YouTube shorts sometimes, the algorithm gives me mostly comedy, usually some type of shketch where one person plays all the characters. I’ve also seen quick tip or educational videos, outdoor clips. None of what I engage with is doomscroling.

          • foremanguy@lemmy.mlEnglish
            42·
            14 days ago

            1 - Even when educational you can’t retain all the infos that these short videos give you

            2 - Log out of YouTube, and watch the default YouTube shorts feed, you would be amazed how this is a concentrate of shitty posts.

            • TacoSocks@infosec.pubEnglish
              51·
              14 days ago

              1 - I’m not going to YouTube shorts to be educated, but if Hank Green shows up and drops a fact on me that’ll entertain me for 30 seconds, I’m good. It’s not doomscrooling which was your original point.

              2 - Well yeah that’s a bad idea on most content websites, just because the lowest common denominator content is bad doesn’t mean it’s bad once you curate what you want to watch.

              • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                12 days ago

                2 - but that’s the problem! All the new accounts, which are very often children just growing up, get bombarded with the most evil and actively damaging shit, and they don’t have the ability to curate whatever comes to them, they don’t even know that they need to do that. And if you aren’t spending hours upon hours on the platform, you don’t have time to curate the algorithm anyway, so you will be served poison

  • AutoPastry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    151·
    14 days ago

    What content would people like to see on this platform? I would think the fediverse audience would be a bit different from your average tiktok or instagram reels user

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    13 days ago

    Android APK shipping this weekend

    Source first. I ain’t touching an APK without seeing code.

    Nothing related to Loops on the Pixelfed GitHub yet.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    13 days ago

    Got mine yesterday when we were out. Told my kid that it would be a non-corporate alternative to TikTok. She couldn’t have been less interested. Sigh.

  • foremanguy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    711·
    14 days ago

    Why does everyone excited to it? Sorry but a short/tiktok format is shitty. It needs to be stopped here