So far, there is only some user settings accessible in the web interface. I don't have an iPhone, hence I cannot say for their app. The android app will come later, apparently.

I really wonder if this is just a different frontend for pixelfed that is video-centric, or if it will be something else.

Since it is supposed to be the TikTok of the fediverse, I really wonder if it will, like pixelfed also just feature a chronological timeline? Because what makes TikTok so popular is not the short videos, but the recommendation algorithm that doesn't even require people to follow any accounts.

If it's just another chronological media feed then they could have just modified pixelfed to only allow video upload and would jabe archived the same thing. So far I am really wondering if loops is a new thing, or if it will be just another reskin of mastodon/pixelfed/...

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[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

So far, there is only some user settings accessible in the web interface. I don't have an iPhone, hence I cannot say for their app. The android app will come later, apparently.

I don't give a shit about TikTok or short form video but legitimately how is this expected to succeed with these limitations? Clearly people like this stuff but can a fediverse service really afford to be iPhone only? This truly seems doomed to fail.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 39 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

The android apk should be here this weekend. It's a one man team working on the development atm.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Honestly that's great news, but wouldn't a web version have made wayyyyyyy more sense?

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah he's decided to work on a web ui, no eta on that atm tho.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

prolly should have spent more time on that than marketing an unfinished 'product''. its kind of telling also that it works in an app better than a simple web api. im betting this shits not going to scale well.

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