• nimpnin@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Short form content without a profix-maximizing algorithm pushing it to you does sound interesting, not gonna lie

    • Esqplorer@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Yeah, I can’t do Instagram or TikTok because within 3 videos I’m either getting something inflammatory or selling something. An algorithmically neutral version would be amazing.

      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        This confuses me. You want something without an algorithm… because you used systems before their algorithm kicked in and hated it?

        The crap you got was because it didn’t know enough about you to know what you like. Without an algorithm, that’d be your feed forever.

        • AstralPath@lemmy.caEnglish
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          6 months ago

          This is a decent point. YouTube is cancer if you don’t police your algorithm. If you do (ie: vote on vids, use the “Not Interested” and “Don’t recommend channel” options) you get a very clean and personalized feed.

          You’ll know when YouTube makes changes to their algorithm as you’ll suddenly get some unwanted stuff. For example, when any football videos show up in my feed I know YT is making changes so I flag the unwanted stuff when it comes up and within a few flaggings its back to normal.

          If you open my YouTube home page its nothing but metal bands, production vids, guitar and drum vids as well as video games, racing, sim racing, science and some other long form content. Its hyper specific to my interests.

          I helped pull my buddy out of a bit of a ragebait spiral during covid just by showing him my feed and comparing it to his. He never fathomed the depths that YT would drag him to if he didn’t curate his algorithm.

          The algorithm can be cancer if you engage with cancer. If you pick your content like you pick your fruits at the grocery store you’ll have a much better time.

  • Pacrat173@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I never got into the short form video thing but anything to get more people onto the Fediverse is a good thing

    • ItsYourBoyHalo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Lmao same! I quit TikTok because of their TOS and Privacy Policy. I’ve been looking for an alternative ever since, but none are privacy respecting.

      I wonder how it will work without an algorithm, though 🤔

      • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 months ago

        The algorithms are what makes these services. Most interactions aren’t searching and selecting something specific or intentional, they’re just opening a fire hose and expecting the algorithm to pick content they find entertaining for them. It requires the algorithm to have a lot of information, both about the specific user, and about similar users.

        • JVT038@feddit.nlEnglish
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          6 months ago

          I think they could add a tag system, where the user enters their interests as a tag and then Loops shows all the content that shares the same tag.

          Yes, it’s more effort than TikTok, which automatically guesses what your interests are, but I think it’s still a good, privacy friendly alternative.

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I don’t watch reels, shorts, tiktoks or any other short for videos and Loops is not an exception. I moved from Instagram to Pixelfed for the sole purpose of getting atleast some audience for my photography since Instagram wants you to post videos instead.