Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free
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I like that it feels more like the web when I was younger, smaller communities usually with a more specific topic, run by a person or small group.
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I'll second moshidon. It gets bonus points for letting you see your followed hashtags. Or something like that. There's something with hashtags that you can't do in the web browser that you can do with apps. Moshidon does that thing.
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Another thing is google results. When I want a recommendation for anything I will add “Reddit” to my query. This is because I know it will return great recommendations and conversations that help me decide. Hopefully I will eventually be able to just use Lemmy for this.
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What's your impression of loops so far?
I've been underwhelmed, but I don't know if that's a platform issue or an adoption issue. Found a couple good accounts to follow, but I really want a block option to keep some accounts out of my "for you" -
LOOPS
Where can I DL and try it?
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https://loops.video/
You can download the Android APK or Download TestFlight for iOS to use it. You have to sign up first -
https://loops.video/
You can download the Android APK or Download TestFlight for iOS to use it. You have to sign up first -
And you will be the one deciding what constitutes hate, whose voice to cut off?
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Content wise it’s underwhelming but it’s random videos. There’s more variety than Pixelfed which has an even smaller community. Eventually more trends will catch on to Lopps but I hope there’s more original content once it’s out of beta and public
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Hopefully. ghostrider2112 seems like a decent dude.
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The selfhosting movement sets people free in general.
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You tell on yourself.
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keeping you engaged on their terms. And their terms alone. There's no freedom
So keeping you engaged on seemingly your own terms is acceptable and possible?
Such articles just make me think of Bluesky with boredom and suspicion.
The real free web is the non-existent luddite web. It should solve problems platforms solve now, but with minimal engagement possible, ideally look for a second, push a button and leave for a walk. A platform is not interested in minimizing engagement, so it should be a system where paid work necessary for its operation doesn't allow one to become a platform.
I like talking about that, and even tried to push myself (executive dysfunction is a bitch) to try to start a little toy project of something like small web (meaning objects with basic hypertext pages with links to other objects ; with current state of an object being a result of many crud-like messages, and which are considered and which are not would be determined by signatures and chain of trust, meaning that two people with different political views could have very different versions of the same forum and both be happy ; such messages and not resulting objects would be what's stored and replicated, like something between Usenet and a version control system). But then realized I don't really want to do that, just to talk about that, and that's more complex than it reads. Maybe eventually, when I'm twice older.
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It makes sense if you are helping Russia or are in on isolating the USA. These parties are being funded by these billionaires in Europe. So I mean, eu strong is likely just a front.
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As long as we have ways to give feedback and affect the system this is a good thing.
The less recourse we have the more authoritarian it is though.
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Thanks.
Signed up for it, now awaiting activation.
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will be hard without some algorithm. tiktok is useful for finding content that align with my interests
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I use fedilab, in part because it's the best app for peertube that I've found. But it's got great support for Mastodon and Pixelfed as well.
