Back in the day, introducing video posts destroyed facebook, a friends chatter platform, slowly but surely. Same fate with instagram, a photography/memory platform, getting into reels and videos.
Now if I go to reddit once a month to check in what the vibe is since my “detox” I realized.
Its all designed to drain. Drain your energy, your free thought, your long term happiness. Like not even hyperbolic, this is really scary.
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And we all know thanks to the c/reddit community here on lemmy: Its full of this hidden but omniprersent corpo shilling, ads and corpo censoring.
Loops was a thing for awhile, the links were all over the place when it came out. I haven’t seen one in months though and I don’t think I blocked them. Does anyone know what happened to Loops?
Loops.video is the homepage. They were poised as a TikTok replacement for the fediverse, made by the same devs who made Pixelfed.
Since this is c/newtolemmy, Lemmy is the reddit alternative on the fediverse (federated and decentralized software circle). Pixelfed is an Instagram replacement for the fediverse that has some limited compatibility with Lemmy.
A lot of links to !loops@midwest.social were posted by @m_f@discuss.online but they got a new phone that was incompatible with the Loops app so they were going to have to stop posting until the app was updated.
Ah yes, that’s the account I remember seeing. That would explain it, thanks!
Yeah, I’d love to post more but still not working for me. There’s been a few posts since I stopped but not many. Hopefully the dev can get stuff figured out, especially the web version he’s been teasing.
I love how a single person can so easily have such an impact here. m_f, you’re lemmy-famous!
I think the developer is splitting their time between pixelfed AND loops and maybe even one more fediverse project.
something something butter spread over too much bread.