A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source

@ForgottenFlux · 2 months ago

A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source

@AWittyUsername · 2 months ago

How can you hate something that you’ve never tried?

@[email protected] · 2 months ago

for example by being aware that the format is harmful to psychological health

@[email protected] · 2 months ago

Pretty easily: that’s the whole point of the concept of “reputation”

@[email protected] · 2 months ago

I dont have to be stabbed in the eye with a pen to know I wouldn’t enjoy it.

@Tattorack · 2 months ago

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

@Tattorack · 2 months ago

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.

@[email protected] · 2 months ago

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

@[email protected] · 2 months ago

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.