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This app could potentially supplant Tik Tok overtime. As Tik Tok's censorship following it's acquisition by US investors such as Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based MGX, and UpScrolled already having questionable ethics, this may be the path forward.
"Get in loser we are going to open-source a turd"
That's cool, still not gonna consume short form media. Idk why people with the desire to have healthy online habits would appreciate this new product. It'll be slopped with politics and AI in no time like Lemmy is already suffering from.
No. No more Vines or Shorts or TikTok and shit. It's a fucking problem. Stop it.
Yes, exactly. It's just a way to successfully manipulate people to believe how you want them to.
And we don't want leftists doing that, so let's make it a moral failing.
Exactly. Ethically sourced brainrot is still brainrot
Clone the brain rot, that'll save you...
I mean, at least you will have the brainrot without profiling, censorship and potentially clients that make it easier to get off the brainrot
It's getting there, but still needs a good amount of ui fixes. The below mentioned are my personal issues with the app.
All this being said I still use it. They are making progress and I hope they keep going.
It needs an app (edit: that is available through Play store or the corresponding apple shop)
And it needs to render uploaded videos to the maximum allowed file size. Regular people don't know how to make their videos smaller. I only managed to do it by uploading to you tube the then downloading it from there. Then it was small enough to to be uploaded to loops
Also, easier sign up and more content
I'm a developer looking for a new pet project. This sound line a fun challenge :) open source multi platform compose app. I might just start it today
It needs an app
There is an app both for apple and android. Just scroll down the page a bit: https://joinloops.org/join-the-beta
It needs third-party apps.
loops has a app if you are talking about them, I just had to uninstall the previous to install the newest as it's been awhile since I've used it.
Seems already pretty solid. Was testing a bit in the last days:
https://loops.video/@ordos
Still very few users. But this could change as soon as the app is available in the app stores.
What is the point of recreating media format designed exclusively to grab attention as much as possible and monetize it?
Edit: I'm not saying that loops is planning to monetize it. I'm trying to say that the short video format was designed as being additive, so that the addiction can be monetized.
To use it to deprogram the next generation of fascist
Short text can be as afdictive as short videos yrt one seems ok and the other not
"What's the point of creating something people want to use?"
This is why most of you aren't designers or creators.
People also want to use drugs that cause addiction. Is that a good reason to design and create more of them?
You could also implement features that reduce the addictivity as the EU might be demanding of Tik Tok in the future. When it's a federated open source platform with no profit motive that's going to be something much more easy to get in.
Who are you to say it isn't?
Someone with a vested interest in s healthy, functional society of educated adults.
If you were an educated adult, you’d know that banning drugs tends to cause more harm. You’d also know that some drugs have positive effects on learning, cognition, attention, memory, mood, emotional regulation, and empathy, when used appropriately and responsibly. All of which contributes to a society of healthy and educated adults.
I was talking about specifically about drugs that cause addiction, not all kinds of drugs in general. Also, I said nothing about banning drugs or anything else. I just don't understand why to produce more of that shit when we as society can't deal with what's already out there.
I'd say it's to help replace unhealthy addictions with a platform that's smaller and less easy to fall into infinite scroll rabbit holes. Like nic-patches to stop smoking.
and monetize it
Have you used TikTok? If you had in the beginning, it was full of people doing history videos, diy, etc. I suspect it will be something like that. I don't use it anymore, but it was great in the beginning,.I suspect that if you're on Loops, especially at first, monetizing it isn't your first thing. The meme communities are probably going to go nuts.
UpScrolled already having questionable ethics
Which questionable ethics? I’m out of the loop.
EDIT: I’m sorry but I’ll take this post and some of the allegations with a grain of salt. Your account is made in January 2026 and this is your first and only post. Your comments are only in here as well. However, I do hope you can clear up about which ethics are questionable on UpScrolled.
I don't know what upscrolled is, but if it's not federated then who cares?
yeah I'm not sure Upscrolled is going to be an improvement over Tik Tok in the long run in any way. Not open source or federated, probably will be even easier for Trump-supporting billionaires to buy it than TT for example. Supporting Loops makes much more sense.
I don't know what upscrolled is, but if it's not federated then who cares?
You care enough to write about the specific app that, you don’t know about.
Your account is 4 days old, that says enough. I won’t respond to you after this comment.
Alright, shill.
I've seen other people on Mastodon/Bluesky mention that the site takes an 'anti-censorship' approach to moderation, so there's a bunch of far right people doing Nazi stuff on there.
That mixed with not having an algorithm, I've seen a lot of sexual stuff I was not looking for.
That mixed with not having an algorithm
Is not that a part of the advantage? You, the person, deciding what you want to see and follow. I think Mastodon and BlueSky are similar in that regard.
I've seen a lot of sexual stuff I was not looking for.
Follow the developer of the app and you’ll understand why;
I have been on UpScrolled for about 23-25 days and have not seen any Nazi stuff. However, I keep my feed and the people I follow mainly about Anime and Palestine.
If there’s indeed Nazi stuff on it, I hope the developer removes it. Zionism and Nazi are both insanely shit ideologies that should have never come to existence.
It would be amazing to ditch the company control and so. The main problem is that it's difficult to get users to join it. I mean just look at how many people still use reddit and discord.
It's a chicken and an egg problem. We don't have to worry about what other people do, only ourselves.
Tbf Lemmy is still lacking on many things like media(comics, games, tv shows, cartoons, anime/Manga etc), Reddit right now is THE place aside from niche sites specific to each median, but as for Discord I agree, alternatives are not so hard there... Lemmy is getting there though.
Use Reddit for reading only; read and contribute to Lemmy.
