I’m actually interested to see how this does so I’ve been following it.
As someone who enjoyed the brief comet that was Vine but despises TikTok, this feels like a throw back to that.
Of course, I’d be delusional if I said that wasn’t hopeful thinking.
You can also follow it yourself at loops.video
I don’t know what to make of this. Regular tiktok just is sooooo offputting to me. The 50x overlays. The voiceovers which are the basis of the content, with the video that has NOTHING to do with the content. The chinese spying. It’s all just very bad.
But then I remember a federated version would be…different. I can’t imagine it would be like tiktok with text overlays. I can’t imagine the content would be similar either. It’ll be like “here’s the better way to sudo your linux…”
Which, as someone who doesn’t care about linux, I’d find it less offensive, but still wouldn’t care about it.
All in all, I’m not excited for it.
It’s a bit hard to imagine the fediverse crowd being huge on a tiktok-like platform. I think it’s an important development, even just as a proof of concept, but it would have to attract an audience from a whole different target audience, and one that might have less patience for technical hiccups.
I think video content is also fundamentally more asymmetrical - from a few influencers to a large number of consumers. Which is probably what the fediverse is heading towards as well, but it’s not what it does best at the moment.
I don’t think I’m the target audience of this, and I’m not sure it’ll be a success. But I think it’s a very interesting and important development anyway.
My Tiktok feed is legal analysis of court cases, magic the gathering card reviews, and Marvel deep dives. You get fed what you watch.
Just report that voiceover shit.
Yes, TikTok has now 10 minutes long videos. The feed is based on what you interact with. There is quality content there.
Do we know in what language it’s built on?
Probably PHP. Pixelfed was also built with PHP.
Ugh
I’m very intrigued, Dan Sup is one of the most interesting people working in the fediverse these days, and I’m very curious about anything he puts forward.
I’m not very interested in a TikTok Clone. I wished he worked on sup instead, his idea for a federated chat.
I don’t think it’s gonna be here in a week. They are still accepting people for the beta.
So tiktok for the fediverse…
Listen, I’m all for open sourcing stuff and I’m all for the fediverse and all. I just don’t understand why one would want a fediverse tiktok.
- Short form content is addictive af and doesn’t add anything of substance to society.
- Video hosting is expensive. Peertube is already struggling. How do you expect to financially sustain video hosting that is addictive to the user (which means more consumption) without running ads? Paywalling it won’t be an option due to the network effect as well.
