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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.
Removed by mod
There’s a fediverse alternative made by same people who have made pixelfed called Loops Link
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.
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.
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.
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.
Good to know, thanks!
its been 2 days, they should at least let content creators of any kind have priority to get some stuff on the platform, I was gonna say link your tiktok to the signup if its manual verification but thats gone lmao
one thing red note nails is easily letting you use the background music of another video for your video, that bare minimum needs to be in loops
Isn’t loops just the pixelfed instance run by the developer?
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.
some fancy ways to offload bandwidth otherwise to prevent constant hammering of popular videos
it’s called a CDN
CDN won’t scale to millions of users all uploading videos on a decentralized system. Article is specifically talking about AT Protocol which doesn’t account for video. Making a global CDN distribution of videos from decentralized sources is whole other ball of wax.
Bluesky has videos though?
Bluesky has videos linked to a static host by a different site or provider. They are not themselves the host of those videos. Different scenario.
These people are poorly informed, Loops already exists
“Exists” yea but not really usable, it’s more raw than Pixelfed
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…
Yeah it’s kinda sad, that open source gets so little love in terms of money.
I would hope that the EU may help here, and in very small steps, that is true, but there could be so much more money (which would still be very little to the EU) that would have a significant effect there.
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.
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.
Mastodon is trash
So is twitter and all the other clones.
That’s still not an excuse to go with the centralized option when centralization is what put people in this position.
Bluesky is better and decentralised
How is it better?
If it’s really decentralized, where are the other instances?
It’s better than X because there’s no nonsense right-wing political propaganda and shitty CEO, and it’s better than Mastodon because it’s more user friendly.
It is meant to be decentralised, but most people aren’t creating their own instances.
So… censorship and not-actually-being-decentralized are your reasons for liking it more?
shitty CEO
Err… don’t be fooled. The CEO of bluesky is only in this to make money. If he could do what musk does, odds are he would.
There’s no censorship the right-wingers haven’t moved to bluesky yet.
not-actually-being-decentralized are your reasons for liking it more
Still better than X and Mastodon, so yes.
If he could do what musk does, odds are he would.
You mean aggressively lobby for right wing takeover and attempt to influence international governance? I have my doubts
it’s better than Mastodon because it’s more user friendly.
This is achieved through centralization. There’s a reason nobody else is hosting their own PDS. You use the bluesky app, on the bluesky website, through the bluesky servers.
Once you get passed the massive hurdle of making an account (no different than when we all collectively figured out email), it’s the exact same UI and experience.
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.
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.
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
What the hell is going on with his pinky finger?
Kids use tiktok and they don’t want something their dad built, however safe. They are migrating to rednote because it’s not safe.
Because we can totally trust the oligarchs to build something safe for us.
They are throwing a tantrum in the stupidest way possible.
The 200 iq move is to join it and tell them how cool it is. Then they won’t like it.
Eh. I tried this with TikTok. Didn’t work.
Lol, this explanation is about as plausible as the “threat” of strangers offering me free drugs (which I must definitely say no to, rofl).
Yes what I was saying was that it is a safe unsafe thing, safe at least to them in any way that matters but still problematic to the people around them which is exactly the thing people want at that age. Seemed a perfectly reasonable thing to say, not sure why it’s downvoted so much.
Bcs kids like to experiment and grow, the dangers involved (as a side effect!!) being to them, not systemic risks to whole countries and the world.
If I did extreme sports as a kid my grandma wouldn’t get radicalised from my money spent on that.
If I support a shitty app from a shitty corp my grandma could get a higher chance of seeing shitty one-sided news of just whatever is profitable to that corp.Doing anything affects the world around you, so doing something that affects everyone & saying that you like the ‘danger’ doesn’t make sense bcs it’s not primarily towards you.
Thats why the problem ‘if you click this button you get a million monies but a random person is killed’ wasn’t made to debate the “danger” but rather morals of such a decision.
