I know of peertube, which is similar to youtube.
But is there anything that is similar to instgram reels, tiktok type stuff.
I imagine it doesn’t exist because the hosting costs would be exorbitant, but I’m curious incase something like it does?
I think peertube needs shortd and mobile apps desperately to fill this void.
Meanwhile I want more Foss video host services that do have ads. If I’m going to be archiving video footage somewhere, I want to know they can pay their bills
loops.video is in development, from the same dev who did Pixelfed
Dont know if it’s a good idea to implement that in anyways, shorts/verticals formats are not meant to be profitable to people, too short to learn anything only to make money of it
IIRC Vine and Coub made it mainstream more than 12 years ago, it’s not something new. Gifs are basically a prequel of the format.
If people wouldn’t like it, it wouldn’t survive this long, and wouldn’t be copied by every other company and requested in threads like this. It’s alright if you don’t like them but please let other people have fun. You don’t have to “learn” from everything, it’s just jokes and light entertainment.
I’m not necessarily disagreeing with your overall point here (I have no idea why people engage with shorts, maybe they do love that format) but I wanted to push back a little on the idea that a product must be popular simply because corporations continue to offer them. Especially with social media, where users are actively discouraged from making their own decisions as much as possible by The Algorithm.
I think there are plenty of examples of things that people continue to use (and often even pay for the “privilege”) despite major aspects of those things being generally reviled by everyone who uses them:
- ad infested apps and websites
- gaming microtransactions
- a new phone every year
- cable service
- insurance
- HOAs
- gasoline
- Amazon
- pants and dresses without pockets
I don’t understand the need really. I mean there is no minimum size. seems like it just need a duration option in search.
The difference is in the user demographic. You can’t have an algorithm to satisfy both the YouTube audience and the TikTok audience.
isn’t like the whole federation thing about less algorithm more personal power.