These people are poorly informed, Loops already exists
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
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“Exists” yea but not really usable, it’s more raw than Pixelfed
His "job" is to go on stage places and be overconfident. Being informed is not part of that job.
I swear, we're just witnessing the next power-grab by people richer than us.
Anyone who isn't advocating for Mastodon, the federated option, is either a fool or being fooled.
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No. Fuck you Mark. Corpocrats don’t get it. The community likes this momentum. We like meeting Chinese people. We like the fediverse. Stop trying to charge us for the use of the public square
Stupid. There are already alternatives. Nobody wants them.
No matter how good you make it, now that tiktok was taken from people any app will just be the tiktok replacement being forced on us instead of a worthwhile social media unto itself.
It's not like twitter which sold its own soul and was subsequently run into the ground. I think any attempt to replace tiktok will just piss people off, especially if they're clearly American corporate enterprises.
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why are they so hellbound on avoiding the fediverse
No money in fediverse
There is, just not a lot and not for a giant central company that controls it.
You can have a private instance, you can have premium accounts on instances, companies can have their own instance.
There is
Compared to what corporate has it's basically no money...
A paid instance with high quality UI/ux and stability would actually be good. They can display ads to their hearts content. It just requires them to take the risk and develop it. There is already a solid base to start.
I can tell you right now, that I have no intention of watching ads. That's the reason I came here to begin with
Companies can start their own instance or make accounts on others. Instance owners can charge companies to allow them on their instance.
There's plenty of companies that people enjoy interacting with. We have an entire instance dedicated to Star Trek.
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No money in Twitter either
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Rich people = successful therefore they should control everything because its obviously the only way for that thing to be successful because success = revenue. According to rich people that is.
There’s a fediverse alternative made by same people who have made pixelfed called Loops Link
Have you used loops? I tried to sign up and its been ~6 hours without a verification email. Its great they have a testflight app on iOS but I've been looking for an android apk with no luck. I really want a federated tik tok to blow up but I'm finding it hard to even get set up.
I used it and it's very disappointing, the content feels like that old website that showed you YouTube videos with 0 views.
Yeah, it's an impressive tech showcase for such a small Dev team... But it's pretty lackluster as a tiktok replacement.
That verify email will come, but don't expect a mountain of quality content once it does
It'll probably be another day or two before you get the email. It'll have a link to an APK to download.
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Loops has some work if it ever wants to really blow up. I crashed constantly while using it the other day, and it's feature set needs work. It has potential though.
Loops is even less federated that Blue Sky, meaning not at all. (It's on the roadmap, though.)
Given the track record of blue sky and pixelfed, I would out my money on pixelfed.
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wtf ever happened to vine?
edit TIL tldr: bought by twitter and killed. founders tried to build a new one in 2020 and died in 2023.
The founders died in 2023 ?
Twitter bought it
His heart is in the right place but money has twisted his mind so much his heart had to go along with it to survive
Ffs, money really is evil, and more monies are more evil.
Just imagine using your money not in exchange for getting even more money ...
Anything that feeds on itself is bound to be sinister.
Just promote and support loops, ya bastard.
Video will not work for AT whatsoever. Text and images, fine, but I'm pretty sure leveraging edge delivery of video is just not going to work out well for users. I think they'll need a centralized host for that portion, or some fancy ways to offload bandwidth otherwise to prevent constant hammering of popular videos.
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AT+CCLK?
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