Loops is Now on the App Store
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You can only watch like 10 videos without an account. And no search.
No thanks!
Thanks for pointing this out.
This "sign up to view" nonsense needs to end. Whoever suggested it should be tarred and feathered.
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It's not on play store. You have to side load it.
Side load it? Don't you mean install it, the Play Store is not the only way to get apps
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42381980
Btw, you can get it on Android through Obtainium and then it'll keep itself up to date, rather than just regularly getting a new .apk. That should do until the f-droid availability shows up
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Right, fair, it's just not on any android app manager, you have to deal with it manually which is not great.
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I guess it is an "improvement" that we can replace corporate brain rot with community brain rot, but this isn't going to change my mind about short form video.
Funny enough I tried a few videos without signing up, and it doesn't seem as bad? It's a HUGE improvement, in fact.
Tiktok was putting me off because main content in its peak was "teenagers dancing."
Meanwhile the "average age in lemmy is 20 years older than reddit" rule applies to loops. I doubt they will ever have "npc streams."
Still dislike short-form content tho so I will pass, but pretty good community nonetheless.
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For content creators it needs a built-in editor instead of forcing every video to be one take. And for consumers it needs a really good recommendation algorithm. The reason TikTok is so successful is that its absurdly efficient (and incredibly invasive) algorithm will find you content you'd like within probably minutes of setting up an account.
I like that this exists, but I don't think it's ready for mass adoption yet.
yeah, as much as I hate algorithm-based social media short form content needs it. you scroll from one video to the next with no way to pick and choose which ones you interact with. normally you can just not click on a post and it gets nothing from you, but short form content does not allow that. that means the next video has to be chosen for you, and that regular feeds will not work. that mean you have to have some kind of algorithm or you will have to interact with tons of videos you have no interest in to get to one that is worth watching to you (which is the current state of loops).
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I mean Loops has a For You page, but the algorithm seems much worse than TikTok (unsurprisingly). Partly I'm sure simply because there is so much less content to pull from, so it might seem worse than it is purely because there might not actually be anything worthwhile on it to recommend to you in the first place. But TikTok's algorithm is famously extremely good at identifying things you would like, even things you might not know you would like yourself. To be able to be an alternative in the brainrot delivery market, Loops needs to be able to come at least closer.
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Right, fair, it's just not on any android app manager, you have to deal with it manually which is not great.
you can use Obtainium!
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I'm guessing maybe they mean instead of iPad too. Which is true.
Oh sry I meant it being apple store only. But that's also hilarious
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42381980
Awesome, I've been looking forward to this! I warmed up to short-form videos, but still refuse to use TikTok and could use an alternative to YouTube Shorts.
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Funny enough I tried a few videos without signing up, and it doesn't seem as bad? It's a HUGE improvement, in fact.
Tiktok was putting me off because main content in its peak was "teenagers dancing."
Meanwhile the "average age in lemmy is 20 years older than reddit" rule applies to loops. I doubt they will ever have "npc streams."
Still dislike short-form content tho so I will pass, but pretty good community nonetheless.
Can confirm. There are lots of "boring" videos on Loops. Like, check this out. Yes, it's an entire channel dedicated to chickens. I mean, it's nice and relaxing, but nowhere near as addicting and engaging as tiktok or instagram videos. I'll still count that as a win.
Regardless, @billinkc still rocks.
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I guess it is an "improvement" that we can replace corporate brain rot with community brain rot, but this isn't going to change my mind about short form video.
Well, it is what de create, right? Why not encouraging people creating short form videos that are decisively not brain-rot?
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Funny enough I tried a few videos without signing up, and it doesn't seem as bad? It's a HUGE improvement, in fact.
Tiktok was putting me off because main content in its peak was "teenagers dancing."
Meanwhile the "average age in lemmy is 20 years older than reddit" rule applies to loops. I doubt they will ever have "npc streams."
Still dislike short-form content tho so I will pass, but pretty good community nonetheless.
For now it seems to be mostly very "fediverse".
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42381980
F-Droid when?
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I guess it is an "improvement" that we can replace corporate brain rot with community brain rot, but this isn't going to change my mind about short form video.
It should be horizontal, amirite?
