Loops by Pixelfed • Public beta (hopefully) launching in 10 hours

i'm really interested to see where this goes. i feel like a lot of the dorks (i say affectionately as a dork) who use the fediverse and people who do this kinda shortform video are two circles that don't touch, so this could very well die on the vine- no pun intended- or it could give the fedi the jolt it needs to enter the mainstream

I'm really skeptical of its success primarily due to the immense costs of hosting video. Peertube exists already, and isn't nearly as successful as Mastodon/Lemmy primarily due to its hosting costs.
- Yeah I wish there was a way to contribute to the hosting with torrent-like seeding. My phone can seed a torrent, but its not going to host an instance.
  
  1 like = seed for 1 month seems like an interesting model
I use TikTok (around a hour a day) and use the Fediverse too(Mbin and Misskey fork), so I guess I am a target audience, so they do touch, pfft

Also there's Pixelfed userbase, I think they would like short form video platform, cause Instagram has it
- A lot of people watch short form content but sets of people who make short form content and who use fediverse doesn’t overlap for sure.
I didn't get on TikTok because I didn't like the content, not because of the format. If folks make good videos on Loops then I'm down.

Storage costs is the biggest hurdle for decentralized video platforms. I wonder how instances will handle that.

Even Bluesky is limiting video uploads heavily. And it's centralized. (As far as I understand.)

shorts are not my cup of tea. Pretty sure shorts have a negative impact on peoples attention span. I'd still be happy to see people watch their shorts on the Fediverse rather than at tiktok/yt. Of course, but still....

Hopefully it's time it's not postponed 😄

Fingers crossed

Just a tip for the developer/sysadmins of loops.video, as a developer myself: Seems like loops.video has no DKIM or SPF configured (if that's the domain being used to sent activation links/codes), so the tendency is for most email providers to block the mail or move it straight to Spam folder. The situation worsens when many users try to sign-up for an account, so loops.video sends a lot of sequential emails (which is something that could be seen as "spam behavior" by email providers). The developer should ensure that mail delivery is properly configured, particularly the trust headers (DKIM and SPF, as mentioned before) needed for sending emails.

Honestly just one or the other is OK. But having neither is an issue

Nice! I just wish it specified how short they're going to be.

Honestly, this whole thing is a mess... first a countdown, then a website with basically no information and that's only the start.

More than 24 hours after signing up, I finally got an email with just about zero information:

Hi @dfyx,

We're thrilled to welcome you to Loops.video!

We're in the process of onboarding all our new users, and we can't wait for you to experience the magic of short looping video.

Keep an eye out for another email from us later tonight or tomorrow (depending on when you signed up). It will have all the details you need to get started, including how to create your first Loop.

Welcome to the Loops community!

Regards, The Loops Team

And from some random comment that dansup made on pixelfed I found out that this beta is only for Android. Apparently, iOS will come later and there is no info on a browser-based version. That info should have been on the website. Also, what about selfhosting? This is the fediverse after all...

Is google recaptcha still only good option?

So, has anyone given it a try?

People seem to be waiting for the activation email
Kind of. All it shows for me is a registration form. When I submit it, they promise me to send an email with further instructions. So far, I didn't get anything. Honestly, they wouldn't have needed a countdown for that.

What it will be about?

I think like federated TikTok/Vine
A federated short video sharing platform. Basically YouTube Shorts or TikTok.

So feediverse tictok?

Except it's been ripped from TikTok first
Fediverse Vine, I hope.

A non-evil, non-corporate tiktok has some huge potential.

I hope it works.

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Same
- Now it's working.

will it have direct messages? it would compete with snapchat a little too.

Why do I need to create a new account for it? At least it should let me sign in with pixelfed account right?

I just used my same Pixelfed login info
- There is no sign in button though
No, you've never been able to sign into different fediverse instances with your account (to my knowledge). You can interact with other instances through yours, yes, but you don't go to the others and sign in.