Did you try it ? How was it ? Tell us everything you think of this new Fediverse platform!

  • @Unknown1234_5
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    617 days ago

    It’s ok for how early it is but it needs a lot of work still (and content)

    • KraftingOPM
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      417 days ago

      Yes, the app is reaaaally rough, and it really needs a web version (even TikTok has a web version)

      • @Unknown1234_5
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        116 days ago

        I wouldn’t ever use it but yeah that’d be pretty nice. Especially for uploading stuff since you can’t record straight from the app anyway.

        • KraftingOPM
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          216 days ago

          Well If they wanna be the next tiktok, they’ll need recording and editing in the app at least. But yeah web version needs to be on the roadmap!

          • @Unknown1234_5
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            116 days ago

            Honestly hope they don’t aim to be the next TikTok. It’d be better to just be another short form platform and aim for feature parity. If they try to be the same thing they’ll fall victim to some of the stuff that makes TikTok and YouTube shorts suck. If they are entirely their own thing but they have close-enough feature parity then they can stand as another option, not just alternative option. For the bad side of that, see YouTube shorts (compared to TikTok). For the good side, see Lemmy (compared to reddit).

  • @mastazi
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    17 days ago

    Basically I’m interested but 99% of my screen time is on desktop, so I wanted to ask if there is any roadmap about a fully functional web interface? Anyone knows? Right now the website is just a dashboard to manage my account and nothing else, at least for me.

    • KraftingOPM
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      316 days ago

      Yes, for now it will be really focussed on a mobile-first experience, but imo they HAVE to have a web version, to at least share videos to people who don’t have the app yet!

    • KraftingOPM
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      316 days ago

      Yes there is! Loging to you account on loops.video and download the apk

  • @yamanii
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    217 days ago

    I received the e-mail but it said it was only for the iOS version, and I’m on android.

    • @Unknown1234_5
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      216 days ago

      If you log in to the website you can download the APK now

    • KraftingOPM
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      216 days ago

      The android version has been out too!

    • KraftingOPM
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      116 days ago

      Yes it’s really rough for now… I really hope it get better soon

  • @BroBot9000
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    -517 days ago

    Why do people enjoy content structured the same ways as advertising?

    • KraftingOPM
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      517 days ago

      What do you mean “like advertising” ? I feel that modern advertising just adapted from the content, not the other way around

    • Meursault
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      417 days ago

      Loops is just a federated TikTok, which is just corporatized vines with an algorithm.

    • @Unknown1234_5
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      216 days ago

      The appeal of it (by my understanding, anyway) is that the content is more concise. It does it’s thing quickly, and thus allows either briefer sessions with it (elevator ride, waiting for your food, etc.) or a session the same length but with a larger variety of content. With an algorithm (which loops doesn’t currently have afaik) it also takes advantage of how your brain works in terms of dopamine being released.

      • @BroBot9000
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        116 days ago

        Sounds like it’s made to be addictive.

        • @Unknown1234_5
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          115 days ago

          Are you familiar with the concept of social media? Thats not a new thing, literally all of them are built on it.