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.
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.
“The Chinese spying” - As opposed to the American spying?
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
Do we know in what language it’s built on?
Probably PHP. Pixelfed was also built with PHP.
Ugh
It’s just… Part of TikTok is attention-seeking.
It’s kinda the entire point for a lot of the users and uploaders, that and getting paid to continue the cycle of creating more content.
If you’re expecting us, as-in, the federated populace on Lemmy and Mastodon to use it, I dunno, man. Sharing personal content is a very rare use case here. We usually stick to news and memes.
Then again, communities that are rather reliant on a performance like fishing, sports, guitar, drums, and skill toys like yoyos might get a use out of having a safe public place to upload themselves without outside influence.