There is always Loops
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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You get to watch a couple of videos only without logging in. No search.
Yikes.
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They're leaving like redditors to Lemmy. There's dozens of them!
It's more like Twitter to BlueSky, which was a pinch more.
Oh come on. Another centralised social media service that could be compromised. Wtf is wrong with these people
They follow what is advertised. Fediverse, by its nature, doesn't have money for this. There was a push for Mastodon, though.
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I think it's hard to host a video-focused social media on the fediverse, I imagine it would have a high cost to maintain.
Build it on top of Bittorrent. If you like a post, you're seeding it. When you want to stop seeding it, your like goes away.
Then popular things will have a large pool of seeds mitigating much of the bandwidth cost to the instance host.
With the side effect of making manipulating the voting algorithm with bots a lot more expensive.
I think people would be pretty quickly upset by the batter and storage drain from this. I have to imagine if picking an instance is a barrier to mastodon, most folks are not interested enough to learn the mechanics of why likes suddenly use system resources, and see it as a failing of the app.
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Here's an idea. How about we abandon ragebait shortform slop/garbage aggregators entirely, and stop rewarding them with excessive device permissions and personal data.
How about we abandon ragebait shortform slop/garbage aggregators entirely
In my day, we listened to AM Talk Radio! 16 hours a day, to and from work! None of this prissy little short form phone slop, no sir. It was three hour long shifts of Rush Limbaugh, Don Imus, Doug "The Greaseman" Tracht, and Sean Hannity. I earned my hate honestly, by fiddling with a little dial on my walkman and getting five commercials about cigars and dick pills every eight minutes. I got to hear bad riff tracks about how Japan was taking over our economy produced on a AKAI S900 that had been dropped down a flight of stairs. I didn't know these people even had faces until Limbaugh showed up as a talking head for the NFL for a few months.
The very fucking idea that these stupid petulant spoiled woke lib fuck-around find-out kids are getting their news from a five minute long vertical visual display? OOOOOOOOoh it makes me SO MAD! I hate 'dem kids. I hate'm!!!
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I looked it up in the App store out of curiosity and holy crap that app almost as bad as TikTok for privacy. Though I suppose people jumping ship from TikTok aren't too concerned about data privacy or else they wouldn't have been using TikTok in the first place.
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Literally anything but FOSS, huh?
Out of the frying pan and into a cold frying pan.
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Not federated. Nothing stops this app from getting worse in the future, right?
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I tried it for an hour or so and it's absolutely filled with Nazis. One of them was criticizing Elon Musk and Trump for not being nazi enough. No thanks.
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They are switching in huge numbers. Literally dozens!
Its website says the platform will remain “impartial” to political agendas, won’t shadowban users or content, and will “uphold social responsibility.”
I don't feel, in this day and age, like you can be politically impartial (i.e. allow fascists to use your platform to spread propaganda) while simultaneously upholding social responsibility (i.e. not allow fascists to use your platform to spread propaganda).
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Is "remain ‘impartial’ to political agendas" a dogwhistle for "tolerates Nazis" or have I just become too cynical
No you're not too cynical. You're paying attention
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An Australian app, so you can say "Epstein" on this one but still not "stop the genocide and colonisation of Palestine". At least the hate speech manager (for now) isn't an ex-IDF Zionist and the platform (for now) is not expressly pro-Israel / pro-genocide.
Isn't upscrolled created by a Palestinian? I doubt he'd be okay with censoring a genocide against his people.
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Larry Ellison tool over Tiktok to stifle anti israel and pro Palestine voices and the NPCs thought it was all about China.
Told you so.
So, from the old brain rot to a new brain rot? Cool!
Why would anyone use TikTok or any clone like that to begin with? Do they want their brain to rot?
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Does UpScrolled have a web or desktop version?
Currently, UpScrolled is available exclusively as a mobile app — downloadable on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
The app is fully supported on smartphones and tablets, giving you a seamless experience across mobile devices.
Web and desktop version are on our roadmap.
And no doubt the web version will pop up a massive blocker requiring you to make an account to even browse.
That's a no from me, dog.
Best app yet, but eventually that app is gonna get bought out just like TikTok and eventually it will get censored.
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Wow the ads for this app keep appearing! It will be another blue sky in less than a year
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How many quick short videos can one consume before they become tired of them? What is the bizarre appeal to that crap instead of actually doing something?
Yes I am typing here on Lemmy, you could make an argument, but damn you see ten short videos you have seen them all.
For me it's news snippets, recipe ideas, 3d print ideas, and short form comedy. I look at it maybe 15min daily. Sometimes days without. My wife probably does 2hrs a day (stay home mother, homeschool teacher, honored caregiver). For her it's the entertainment that can be quickly put down, little investment involved.
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