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i'm really interested to see where this goes. i feel like a lot of the dorks (i say affectionately as a dork) who use the fediverse and people who do this kinda shortform video are two circles that don't touch, so this could very well die on the vine- no pun intended- or it could give the fedi the jolt it needs to enter the mainstream
I use TikTok (around a hour a day) and use the Fediverse too(Mbin and Misskey fork), so I guess I am a target audience, so they do touch, pfft
Also there's Pixelfed userbase, I think they would like short form video platform, cause Instagram has it
I'm really skeptical of its success primarily due to the immense costs of hosting video. Peertube exists already, and isn't nearly as successful as Mastodon/Lemmy primarily due to its hosting costs.
Yeah I wish there was a way to contribute to the hosting with torrent-like seeding. My phone can seed a torrent, but its not going to host an instance.
1 like = seed for 1 month seems like an interesting model
Naah I thought about this before and came to the conclusion that this isn't that bright of an idea. Here's why.
Why's video hosting so expensive in the first place? Because it needs a lot of computational power, storage and bandwidth. All three things that a mobile phone does not have. If you make your client's mobile phone do this stuff, then you're going to slow down their phone, make it heat up more, make it degrade faster (because it would be drawing power from the battery) and take up a huge chunk of their bandwidth.
Think of how video calls drain battery really fast. It's just shifting the costs of hosting from the hosting side to the consumer side while making the entire operation a lot more complicated and a lot more inefficient.
Take out the phone part and allow users to host videos in a decentralised way on their home computers and it's a genuinely good idea though. I have a server running with plenty of storage and reasonable upload speed. I could easily dedicate a terabyte or so, as long as I'm not the sole hoster.
It would be a hell of a lot cheaper than dedicated hosting. The only issue is legal problems when someone is unknowingly hosting abuse material, which is something that happens from time to time on all services like this, and an individual could be done for distribution without the protection big centralised services have. You'd just have to hope mods are on top of it.
Actually something like a debrid service but for peertube might work. You can get huge amounts of storage for cheap because a lot of it is shared, you might ask them to host a huge torrent file, but most torrent files serve multiple users, so the cost is distributed. Peertube could work a similar way if it were more mainstream.
Sure! Remember though, that you are funding this project using your own money. How much does your server cost? How much does the electricity to run your server cost? You would need Gbps speed internet. How much does that cost?
You would be funding this out of your own pocket. Thank you for doing that! Would there be a thousand more people willing to do this? What happens if you lose your job? What happens to the server?
As you can see, this is not a technological issue, but a funding one. If you can generate funding for this somehow, you have a very viable model! IF you can find the funding.
I am saying that funding this would be difficult. I see people just yapping about FOSS, but not funding it when the time comes.
I didn't get on TikTok because I didn't like the content, not because of the format. If folks make good videos on Loops then I'm down.
Storage costs is the biggest hurdle for decentralized video platforms. I wonder how instances will handle that.
Even Bluesky is limiting video uploads heavily. And it's centralized. (As far as I understand.)
Hopefully it's time it's not postponed 😄
Fingers crossed
Just a tip for the developer/sysadmins of loops.video, as a developer myself: Seems like
loops.videohas no DKIM or SPF configured (if that's the domain being used to sent activation links/codes), so the tendency is for most email providers to block the mail or move it straight to Spam folder. The situation worsens when many users try to sign-up for an account, so loops.video sends a lot of sequential emails (which is something that could be seen as "spam behavior" by email providers). The developer should ensure that mail delivery is properly configured, particularly the trust headers (DKIM and SPF, as mentioned before) needed for sending emails.Honestly just one or the other is OK. But having neither is an issue
shorts are not my cup of tea. Pretty sure shorts have a negative impact on peoples attention span. I'd still be happy to see people watch their shorts on the Fediverse rather than at tiktok/yt. Of course, but still....
Sorry I stopped reading your comment after four words. Could you condense it to a five second clip with another following on within a secon sorry I forgot what we were talking about
*Rocket Racoon AI voice over old Minecraft footage*
I dont like shorts
bad attention span
like no tik tok.
Sorry, I couldn't follow your comment. Could you please interlay a second text in a different color that has poop jokes so I can have enough things to focus on? An injected mp4 of someone stapling sheet aluminum would help, too.
Finally a place to post my tom shelby sigma edits.
Is google recaptcha still only good option?
So, has anyone given it a try?
People seem to be waiting for the activation email
all the activation emails should be out by today
https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113346938783519339
Kind of. All it shows for me is a registration form. When I submit it, they promise me to send an email with further instructions. So far, I didn't get anything. Honestly, they wouldn't have needed a countdown for that.
Nice! I just wish it specified *how* short they're going to be.
This short
new boot goofin'
so short
Short enough for not be pants
What it will be about?
I think like federated TikTok/Vine
A federated short video sharing platform. Basically YouTube Shorts or TikTok.
So feediverse tictok?
Except it's been ripped from TikTok first
Fediverse Vine, I hope.
Could I use my lemm.ee account and connect to it somehow?
Edit: signed up using my lemmy user (user@lemm.ee) I have no idea if this will work or not.
Nope, Lemmy does not support OAuth.
Damn that sucks. Cause I tried to sign up under another email and it says the user is taken
Same
Now it's working.
Signed up
Honestly, this whole thing is a mess... first a countdown, then a website with basically no information and that's only the start.
More than 24 hours after signing up, I finally got an email with just about zero information:
And from some random comment that dansup made on pixelfed I found out that this beta is only for Android. Apparently, iOS will come later and there is no info on a browser-based version. That info should have been on the website. Also, what about selfhosting? This is the fediverse after all...
Banned
Seems like
loops.videohas no DKIM or SPF configured (if that's the domain being used to sent activation links/codes), so the tendency is for most email providers to block the mail or move it straight to Spam folder. The situation worsens when many users try to sign-up for an account, so loops.video sends a lot of sequential emails (which is something that could be seen as "spam behavior" by email providers). The developer should ensure that mail delivery is properly configured, particularly the trust headers (DKIM and SPF, as mentioned before) needed for sending emails.Be patient. It seems like they are manually sending out activation emails. You should receive it this week.
will it have direct messages? it would compete with snapchat a little too.
no, since Snapchat is based around *disappearing* messages
A non-evil, non-corporate tiktok has some huge potential.
I hope it works.
Why do I need to create a new account for it? At least it should let me sign in with pixelfed account right?
I just used my same Pixelfed login info
There is no sign in button though
No, you've never been able to sign into different fediverse instances with your account (to my knowledge). You can interact with other instances through yours, yes, but you don't go to the others and sign in.
I've watched this countdown reset so many times that I didn't really care anymore.