 https://loops.video is a very promising ActivityPub platform for short form video, and could use your financial support to help fund and sustain this initiative! Donations can be made via @pixelfed https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project Letβs build a new TikTok thatβs federated and better for humanity! Boosts appreciated! 25 comments
 Cool, thanks for the reply! I do feel like most videos on TikTok are longer than that, so I guess this is a partial TikTok alternative π€  @svitvojimilioni @dansup @pixelfed I hope one day to get a user selection of algorithms (for the homepage). I mean like Chronological, CIA, CCP :-P More seriously I think thereβs a use for open-source reviewable algorithms. Some for sorting, maybe even some running on device, others for discovery. @svitvojimilioni @dansup @pixelfed Iβd like to know as well - TikTokβs magic isnβt users uploading videos, itβs the recommendation algorithm.  @dansup @svitvojimilioni @pixelfed so you decided that every part if the app will be #FOSS? @dansup @svitvojimilioni @pixelfed awesome! I was worried you would end up stripling video effect parts. π @svitvojimilioni @dansup @pixelfed ofc on Microsoft-proprietary GitHub. π€¦πΌββοΈ Yeah fair point, why not use some other git hosting service other than github/gitlab. That is part of process and strengthening foos movement to do independent and autonmous development of software. network effect i guess, it's much better to host stuff on other community platforms or at least foss platforms, regain that autonomy!  Best thing in an FOSS implementation will be that someone can finally implement that setting to turn off the loop autoplay. I love the short video format, but I will never understand why they should auto-repeat instead of auto-advance. @dansup Well I DO have an idea about why: because users have to do fake 'engagement' interactions every 10s or they get served the same add 2 or 3 times in a row. A win-win on a commercial platform.     |
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@dansup @pixelfed what will be the max length of videos?
(Sorry if I missed this somewhere π)