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The Fediverse might be getting their own mashups of Tiktok, YouTube, and Vine sooner than anyone thought, thanks to the work of one prolific dev spearheading an effort. The best part? He’s helping other projects in the space, too.
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Dansup is well known for making grand announcements and delivering on them very late or never. I think it was more than two years ago that he announced federated groups for Pixelfed and still nothing. So I wouldn’t get my hopes up yet.
He is a bit bombastic, and has a habit of biting off more than he can chew sometimes. I think these side-projects are ultimately useful, though, and probably help fend off boredom or burnout. Maybe he gets better at coding and design through doing that, I dunno.
Regardless, he’s continues to do a lot of great development work.
Sup messenger too, but it’s on hold due to EU regulatory challenges
And I agree, Dan is a great asset to fediverse development
@deadsuperhero @nutomic I think the concept of a TikTok on the Fediverse is solid. And if short form videos help to get more people on the Fedi, and engaging with the Fedi, that’s a good thing in my book.
i still disagree that we should get as many people as possible on the Fediverse.
That’s a good way for this place to become a hateful shit hole like so many other places on the internet.Aren’t we still pretty far from being anywhere near that big?
I think the volume of people ia what killed Mastodon. That place is toxic.
Switch servers, I have had nothing but good interactions
How so? I’m not on it but couldn’t you try another instance?
I wanted to use his mlencryoted messenger :(
He’s still working on his messengers. It’s been delayed because of new EU regulations surrounding messaging clients.
Little baby Elon…
Vine 3.0 let’s try this again
This time it’s personal!
Wait, we want anonymous
Electric boogloo?
Never met her
You were supposed to bring balance to the Fediverse, not destroy it
Oh for fucks sake
Well now’s the time if TikTok gets banned.
Eww!!! TikTok is so nasty!!!
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That’s my main concern. Seeing content from other platforms in my Mastodon feed is pretty great right now (Lemmy, PeerTube etc). But hashtag feeds could quickly get overrun by something like this if it works the same way.
That said, making this its own thing instead of building a “reels” for Pixelfed suggests the dev already knows separation will be important, so 🤞
@thegiddystitcher @helenslunch I think hashtag feeds being overrun with vertical videos is an excellent point. (One I hope @dansup considers!)
But beyond that, I think vertical videos through Loops on the Fedi are likely to be far less obtrusive than they have been on other platforms.
What’s so annoying about them on Instagram and YouTube is that the algorithm automatically drops vertical videos into my feed.
And there’s *lots* of them in my feed, often on topics I’m not interested in.
They’re not there because I’m interested, but because they serve the commercial interests of the social media app’s owners.
Hashtags aside, on the Fedi, they’ll only appear in your feed if you follow a Loops account you’re interested in, or someone you follow finds one interesting enough to share.
And if people on your Mastodon server all find them really annoying, there’s always the option to just block the Loops servers and be done with it.
how much would it cost to provide this endless stream of media? im guessing it would be very costly.
