In the last few months i really gotten into the whole Fediverse thing, but i noticed that, despite it being the most popular Social Media Platform, there isn’t a TikTok alternative. I know there is Loops, but it’s not open source or federated yet, so it’s not really an option. Why is that?
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Nobody pays for that much bandwidth without the ability to manipulate you through profiling and impressions. You are the product. The product is not sharing videos. There is no fediverse platform that makes you its whore. If you were to make a video sharing platform, it would never work, because that is not the product, it’s only a feature of what makes up the dopamine machine.
Lemmy will also never outgrow commercial platforms, because the commercial platforms also never were about content.
Video content is really computationally expensive to play and store. Seems like it requires centralization to make the service fast and responsive with enough storage.
I suppose I could imagine some kind of ephemeral TikTok that deletes videos from storage after a set amount of time. Or a lowfi TikTok that only allows uploads in 240p. Otherwise I just can’t see it.
7 second clips
Lowfi TicToc would be perfect. Just upload the thousands of loops from Z0R or POWN.IT and wait.
Loops is new and still in beta. The dev has said that he wants to wait to open source it until he feels it’s current state is ready to be on other people’s servers (once it reaches 1.0). I can’t say I agree with the thought process but at least with pixelfed he did the same process and actually followed through on federation and open sourcing
The grant he’s receiving to develop it requires it to be open source.
[TikTok is] the most popular Social Media Platform
I’m not calling you a liar, but this is news to me. Do you have any data to back up that assertion?
Correct. Seems more like 5th.
YouTube is a social network?
No. But it is a social media site, and people have been conflating the two for twenty years now.
I’m often surprised by how active and “engaged” the comment section can get, especially on live videos.
I am often surprised how toxic yt comments are.
Perhaps I spend too much time reading them, but I’m more surprised when the comment section is NOT toxic!
I’d say third. YouTube isn’t really a social media platform, nor WeChat.
If tiktok is sa social media platform, then so is youtube/
Thank you.
It’s not true. Not even close.
It could vary by age group, so not most popular overall, but it’s relative.
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It’s still in the early days of development and you will probably have to wait a bit for full AP implementation.
[Loops](https://dataconomy.com › 2024 › 10 › 28 › loops-the-fediverse-tiktok-alternative)
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I know there is Loops, but it’s not open source or federated yet, so it’s not really an option.
because the team building it are better at marketing what they want it to do rather than what it actually does.
doesnt federate. doesnt embed. requires their app or view only in their walled garden. so far its just yet-another-short-form-video-site
