A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse
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Loops promises to bring the TikTok experience to the fediverse.

Signups opened this week for Loops, a short-form looping video app from the creator of Instagram alternative Pixelfed, reports TechCrunch.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    A distributed service is much less vulnerable to being bought up by a single narcissistic billionaire who can ruin the online experience of millions of people at once.

    A distributed service like Lemmy is spread out over 600 Instances in countries all over the world. If someone buys the most popular Lemmy Instance and wrecks it, those users can simply move to the same communities on the second or third or fourth most popular Instance and the original Instance will wither and die. This also works for communities with power tripping moderators. You can quickly find out through a search which community is the “real” one by the number of subscribers it has.

    • EnderMB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      55·
      2 months ago

      But again, what tangible benefit does that have for the average user? They don’t give a fuck about billionaire ownership, moderation, or where an “instance” or server is located.

      • NutWrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
        131·
        2 months ago

        Well, you should care about it because that’s how online communities get ruined. Case in point: Twitter has become a propaganda tool for an apartheid-loving fascist since he bought it.

        • EnderMB@lemmy.worldEnglish
          64·
          2 months ago

          Why should a user care about the health of an online community? To them it should “just work”.

          (I’m being purposely facetious here, because the average person really doesn’t care about this shit. When Twitter no longer serves its purpose to them they just leave and go to the next place)

          • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Why should a person who goes to the park care about the park?

            If people are dumping trash everywhere and all the plants and animals are dying, I assume you wouldn’t like to spend much time there anymore.

            Sure another park might be opened, but constantly changing parks isn’t what you want to do long term. If someone buys up the basketball court and turns it into a cesspool of hate, you can unsubscribe from that court and remove it from your park. Adding another one that is nicer, without completely going to a new park.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        But again, what tangible benefit does that have for the average user?

        You have more control over your front-page content. If you don’t want to get a particular feed, you unsubscribe from it.