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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 (www.theverge.com)

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Signups opened this week for Loops, a short-form looping video app from the creator of Instagram alternative Pixelfed, reports TechCrunch.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I think if you're just looking for quick news breaks then it can be useful but if you're looking for detailed content or lengthy movies, or skits. Something like Youtube would be more preferred. I think for me it depends on the content.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I watch a ton of YouTube. I love it for entertainment and some news. I absolutely hate YouTube for tutorials or guides though. If I'm trying to figure out how to fix a computer issue, I just want to read about it and have screenshots I can look at. I don't want to have to constantly pause a damn video or scroll back and forth to find info.

As far as tiktok style videos go I just hate everything about them. I hate the auto play, I hate the vertical aspect ratio, I hate the stupid auto voiceovers, I hate the dumb floating captions and comments overlay, I hate the lack of volume adjustment or the ability to pause and rewind or seek. I hate the types of brainrot content that people make to work the algorithm. I hate that the format has infested YouTube and IG with no real way to be rid of it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago

If you hate the content, find out other types of content that does work with the short videos. Surely you could find some kind of use from it? From the videos being short it has time saving potential particularly I can see that atleast.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I think if you're just looking for quick news breaks then it can be useful...

No, even then, that format is even worse. Good journalism often has a nuance and detail to it. The short-format video nonsense barely has enough time to get through a headline and a broad summary.

The 24h news cycle is bad enough without trying to shorten it further to 90sec ragebait clips.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

I addressed that actually. I said if you wanted more detail then youtube or peertube might be better.

But if you just want a quick glance, then that's why I said then maybe the short form content might be preferred.