Android APK shipping this weekend
Source first. I ain’t touching an APK without seeing code.
Nothing related to Loops on the Pixelfed GitHub yet.
Why does everyone excited to it? Sorry but a short/tiktok format is shitty. It needs to be stopped here
I just got my email 2 minutes ago!
I thought they meant time traveler
Yay! I’m in! I’m very excited about this
Anyone know what loops are?
Still can’t login
Hot take: let this brain rot format die already. If you cannot hold your attention for longer than a few minutes at a time, you might want to work on that instead of embracing it.
Do you not think some people doomscroll lemmy, only reading titles and looking at image posts?
Sure, there are those people, but that’s not the point here. Lemmy doesn’t enforce some arbitrary short length to its posts in an attempt to force the users to engage more with the platform instead of the actual content. The same cannot be said of tiktok or twitter, for example.
Maybe but it’s not the point of it. An infinite scrollable shorts/tiktok like is meant to be doomscrolled
I watch YouTube shorts sometimes, the algorithm gives me mostly comedy, usually some type of shketch where one person plays all the characters. I’ve also seen quick tip or educational videos, outdoor clips. None of what I engage with is doomscroling.
1 - Even when educational you can’t retain all the infos that these short videos give you
2 - Log out of YouTube, and watch the default YouTube shorts feed, you would be amazed how this is a concentrate of shitty posts.
That’s a room temp take at best
Seems to have been hot enough to get under your skin, though. Thanks for proving my point. 👍
No, pretty much everyone agrees with you. It’s like posting on unpopular opinions: “I think Hitler was a bad person”
Current research suggests that declining attention is most likely caused by an expectation of quality rather than actual personal issues. Condensing information is a valuable skill an people do not have time for middle length content just to be disappointed.
You might want to give some sources for that claim.
This article from Time summarizes quite well my view of the issues related to attention span. This is certainly not limited to the likes of tiktok or twitter, but I think those can be considered as representing two of the worst platform formats for meaningful content.
But then how am I supposed to use your “research” to make imaginary claims on generational attention spans ?
Yes I want a full-featured documentary about a cute baby hippo. You’re right.
It really depends on how you implement it. Look up Jaden Williams or ailaughatmyjokes (Silvia), some of their videos could be a really good example of how to do good shorts.
What content would people like to see on this platform? I would think the fediverse audience would be a bit different from your average tiktok or instagram reels user
I am not average then. I use tiktok to discover musicians, get short informative videos from science enthusiasts, and poetry or life advice.
Some of these are only possible because of the remarkable recommendation algorithm but I stay hopeful.
the entire saving grace of the fediverse is a lack of algos and curation of your own content. algorithms have basically broken social media and the way we interact with the web. quality and substance is nowhere to be seen for the past few years and many of those who migratate to the fediverse do so specifically for the improved quality of content - it’s the whole selling point.
The comments are always everyone just shitting on this bullshit lmao
I still feel like they seem to be building a bit too much hype to what’s going to be just another type of social media in the fediverse with scarce posts made by almost exclusively tech enthusiasts
Maybe they are trying to get enough hype so it doesn’t end up being completely that way.
