Given that Pixelfed is designed as an Instagram alternative, it seems like it’d make more sense to just put the short-form videos on there.
Given that Pixelfed is designed as an Instagram alternative, it seems like it’d make more sense to just put the short-form videos on there.
Didn’t Instagram add those stupid things because it was desperately trying to compete with TikTok?
I love having a platform that isn’t trying to do short form portrait video. Everywhere wants to do it and I detest the medium. It’s so boring!
There’s Loops.video for people that want a federated TikTok
but somehow still feels like crack when you scroll it.
Uhhh, no? I get that I’m apparently alone in that, but I find both the format and the cadence of content it results in horrible.
That’s the thing, if you stay on it longer, it will start to serve you content more interesting to you to make it more crack like.
As I said, the format and the cadence that results from what people optimise for is what turns me off. I don’t want portrait video on my phone, at all. I don’t want min maxing for short run time.
It could be about my favourite topics and I still wouldn’t want to watch it, anymore than I want to watch films on VHS or listen to music on HitClips.
I wouldn’t mind one doing true short form, Vine-style, but watching somebody talk into their phone for 2-3 minutes? Hell no.