Signups opened this week for Loops, a short-form looping video app from the creator of Instagram alternative Pixelfed, reports TechCrunch.
would it have a app?
It will be mobile only at first
app ≠ program
Can’t see this doing well, who’s gonna want to host it and pay the bandwidth and storage costs?
I know people would be willing to do that for a YT alternative, but I don’t think there’s many people who want to shell out so some kid can post their cringe dance video.
Also, who tf gonna use it? I’d imagine Tik Tok users are the social media group that cares the least about the fediverse, open source, and privacy…
PeerTube already exists, and has basically no usage (because no one is willing to foot the cost)
i like cringe dance videos but i think the problem’s gonna be the volume
I don’t really get why people scroll through short-form video, but at least there’s an opensource alternative in the works… Will be interesting to see if they allow non-loops users to contribute bandwidth because hosting all of those videos will be expensive af.
so far it seems like an over-marketed unfinished piece of vaporware. there was nothing to look at when it was first dripped months ago. or when the magical countdown stopped. or when no one received beta invites despite it being ‘this week’
just seems like a lot of spamming the fed community now. happy to be proven wrong
Dan seems to have trouble sticking with a single project. Sometimes it feels like he announces some new thing every week that never gets finished.
Yeah it would have been enticing to see, you know, an actual video or the interface or at least something other than a logo.
Yea this was the last email I got…a promise for another email…5 days ago
Have you ever seen a TikTok video? Why on Earth do we want that on the Fediverse? Not everything that exists deserves to be copied.
There are good short form videos. There are also bad ones. No different than long form video.
Yea my first reaponse is thats something ill never want. Glad theres no ios client
Wiser words have never been spoken.
