Loops by Pixelfed is finally sending out welcome emails after weeks

I still feel like they seem to be building a bit too much hype to what's going to be just another type of social media in the fediverse with scarce posts made by almost exclusively tech enthusiasts

Maybe they are trying to get enough hype so it doesn’t end up being completely that way.

Hot take: let this brain rot format die already. If you cannot hold your attention for longer than a few minutes at a time, you might want to work on that instead of embracing it.

Current research suggests that declining attention is most likely caused by an expectation of quality rather than actual personal issues. Condensing information is a valuable skill an people do not have time for middle length content just to be disappointed.
- But then how am I supposed to use your "research" to make imaginary claims on generational attention spans ?
- You might want to give some sources for that claim.
  This article from Time summarizes quite well my view of the issues related to attention span. This is certainly not limited to the likes of tiktok or twitter, but I think those can be considered as representing two of the worst platform formats for meaningful content.
Do you not think some people doomscroll lemmy, only reading titles and looking at image posts?
- Sure, there are those people, but that's not the point here. Lemmy doesn't enforce some arbitrary short length to its posts in an attempt to force the users to engage more with the platform instead of the actual content. The same cannot be said of tiktok or twitter, for example.
- Maybe but it's not the point of it. An infinite scrollable shorts/tiktok like is meant to be doomscrolled
That's a room temp take at best
- Seems to have been hot enough to get under your skin, though. Thanks for proving my point. 👍
It really depends on how you implement it. Look up Jaden Williams or ailaughatmyjokes (Silvia), some of their videos could be a really good example of how to do good shorts.
- There are several content creators that started with short video and then moved on on Youtube that I just love and adore. Their short stuff is good. But when they aren't constrained by the format and can do whatever they want, they do videos that are so much better it's unbelievable.
Yes I want a full-featured documentary about a cute baby hippo. You're right.

What content would people like to see on this platform? I would think the fediverse audience would be a bit different from your average tiktok or instagram reels user

Reposts from TikTok insta and youtube
I am not average then. I use tiktok to discover musicians, get short informative videos from science enthusiasts, and poetry or life advice.
Some of these are only possible because of the remarkable recommendation algorithm but I stay hopeful.
- the entire saving grace of the fediverse is a lack of algos and curation of your own content. algorithms have basically broken social media and the way we interact with the web. quality and substance is nowhere to be seen for the past few years and many of those who migratate to the fediverse do so specifically for the improved quality of content - it's the whole selling point.

Anyone know what loops are?

I think it's like tiktok.
- but federated and open source

Happy Groundhog Day I guess.

Got mine yesterday when we were out. Told my kid that it would be a non-corporate alternative to TikTok. She couldn't have been less interested. Sigh.

Yay! I'm in! I'm very excited about this

I just got my email 2 minutes ago!

Still can't login

I got in - but there isn't much to see/do yet. Not sure how to post videos, can't see anyone else
Weird
Same. Started suspecting that its app-only.
- https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113396070912173145
  That was the original plan, but seems like they will create a web app some time down the road

I got one but it said it was iOS only

The comments are always everyone just shitting on this bullshit lmao

I thought they meant time traveler

no invite and I've been on the waitlist since it's been announced :(

Why does everyone excited to it? Sorry but a short/tiktok format is shitty. It needs to be stopped here

You're opinion. I personally like it
- Can understand the opinion of having "open" doomscrolling platform but...