Hmm, they managed to get on techcrunch. Impressive. So many little fediverse projects just don’t.
Loops is not yet open sourced, nor has it completed its integration with ActivityPub, the protocol that powers Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, and other federated apps.
Ah, it’s a startup with a hypeman budget that might federate, that’s why.
Edit: Although it’s by the Pixelfed guy and run by donation?
The Pixelfed guy does good work, but video hosting/streaming is the most difficult use-case to compete in due to infrastructure costs; I’m interested to see how he’s planning to handle this and I wish him luck.
I think federated non-profit video platforms won’t work on large scale without P2P.
I think that pixelfed guy has a big problem with commitment, he has so many unfinished/unpolished projects, and he’d be able to do so much more if he wasn’t starting something new every other month.
Yeah okay, so it sounds like he’s the kind of guy who’ll build a framework, or most of it, and won’t ever really become capable of hosting a lot of videos at a watchable quality.
Technically he’ll probably have built something basically functional the community could rally behind and get going. But that won’t happen, because the people who care about the Fediverse are few, insufficiently resourceful, and most importantly don’t care about shorts.
Not at all, Pixelfed is very polished and gets regular updates.
I think streaming works best where people self host their own media tbf.
Self hosting isn’t really compatible with viral content, you do something that blows up and either get the hug of death or go bankrupt from the bandwidth costs.
this is what peertube tries to fix: everyone watching a peertube video (by default) will help server the data to other watching, so instead of the server needing to send all the data the viewers share the load.
Reminds me of the time somebody namedropped a hobbyist’s project on prime time national radio in the UK. Their project was a train timetable tracker website, made because the official resource didn’t work too well. The site went down nearly instantly 🤣
Also there is no casino algorithm showing you what big data knows will make you stay for a while.
In TikTok or instagram reels, you don’t follow people you like. You just watch stuff happening.
In TikTok or instagram reels, you don’t follow people you like. You just watch stuff happening.
That’s actually the whole point of TikTok, what made it different when it started. An app for short videos where you follow people you like is more of a Snapchat competitor, not TikTok.
he mentioned in the past that the videos will be automatically deleted after some period of time, so that should make the storage situation a little bit more manageable.
How ephemeral.
I can’t wait for it to be used for important long term information.
Important long term storage in short video clips?
It seems to be what’s popular these days
