Neat! I’ll probably try it out. Like it or not, short form video is really popular now, so this feels like a good thing to grow Pixelfed and the fediverse
It will also come with an open source “For You” algorithm. I’ve been wishing the fediverse do this since I joined and it took literally banning TikTok for it to happen in the span of a few months by dansup for Loops, who thankfully has a favorable outlook on the use of algorithms on the fediverse.
It’s easy to forget that algorithms were originally added to social media as a benefit to the user. It’s easy to miss the content you want to see when you follow lots of accounts.
I would love to see an algorithm that allows for manual adjustment. Kagi search allows a user to raise or lower the priority of individual results. I can’t think of another platform or service that does this explicitly. Most do it implicitly through various forms of engagement.
Fucking hate short videos but if this gets normies on the federated side then I’m all for it
Wait, you want the normies here?
I consider myself a normie. It took me awhile to understand the fediverse.
We are already here.
Normies = lurkers
Great name
Dansup is seriously great at designing social platforms. I don’t have much personal use for it, as I never cared for instagram, but I think Pixelfed is the best designed platform on the Fediverse. I’m sure Loops will be great too. Fantastic name too.
Kudos to the guy for doing stuff + it being FOSS, but I wouldn’t call him “great at designing social platforms”. Pixelfed is fediverse instagram, loops is fediverse tiktok
Just wait 'til you find out that Lemmy is also a fediverse clone of a toxic platform
Pretty much everything on the fediverse is just a clone of another social media. Pixelfed still has the most intuitive design for new users and a great onboarding process. Took Mastodon a while to catch up.
Yea part of the point in designing these alternatives (to my understanding) is that the userbase can feel immediately at home, there is little barrier to entry
Yeah, the name is really good.
I was wondering when someone was going to create a Fediverse platform like this. Figured it would be the folks at either PixelFed or Peertube. Can’t wait to try it out!
This is well timed considering the TikTok ban timeline. Loops will have enough time to sort out any bugs or issues right now with a slow trickle of traffic and then probably grow exponentially in the power vacuum left behind when TikTok vanishes from the various app stores.
I don’t think Loops will have the addicting effect like TikTok, which is a good thing, but I feel like that’s what most people want.
Good.
I hope there will be a filter to filter by content format
Bet a killer feature for this would be pluggable recommendation algorithms.
EDIT; Clarity
Cool, a whole new way to learn about what every type of penis looks like
Love the fediverse.
What are the chances we get a Fediverse YouTube eventually?
You mean Peertube?
I was aware of it, but is it part of the fediverse? If so, I was unaware. I thought it was around before.
As far as I can tell, it’s always used ActivityPub for instances to communicate with each other, with video streaming mainly facilitated using WebTorrent on the backend to keep use of the host low.
