FYI, it works great for me on sh.itjust.works. Is your instance a lemmy instance?

and monetize it

Have you used TikTok? If you had in the beginning, it was full of people doing history videos, diy, etc. I suspect it will be something like that. I don't use it anymore, but it was great in the beginning,.I suspect that if you're on Loops, especially at first, monetizing it isn't your first thing. The meme communities are probably going to go nuts.

I'd say it's to help replace unhealthy addictions with a platform that's smaller and less easy to fall into infinite scroll rabbit holes. Like nic-patches to stop smoking.

...? Interesting thing to share on Lemmy...

No. No more Vines or Shorts or TikTok and shit. It's a fucking problem. Stop it.

mbin

dansup is Canadian. I guess it makes sense to get the iPhone app up on the store first if you're trying to get users from the US market where people are moving away from TT currently.

Upscrolled could have been the one but 90% of the content is not English, which makes sense given who is creating it, but the real problem is that most of the English content I came across there either wasn't remotely interesting to me or was straight up nazi racist stuff.

I mean, at least you will have the brainrot without profiling, censorship and potentially clients that make it easier to get off the brainrot

What is “questionable” about UpScrolled’s ethics is that it is pro-Palestine. So basically the same reason that TikTok came under attack: it wasn’t promoting Zionist voices and it wasn’t suppressing anti-Zionist voices.

My issue with them is that they’re corporate (and also that I have no interest in blipvert social media).

It still is that way, it just depends on what kind of content you engage with. People on reddit/lemmy LOVE to hate on short form video content but it isn't inherently destructive or evil IMO., it just depends on how you interact with it.

That's cool, still not gonna consume short form media. Idk why people with the desire to have healthy online habits would appreciate this new product. It'll be slopped with politics and AI in no time like Lemmy is already suffering from.

It needs third-party apps.

Yeah I know. I just don’t like ActivityPub from a technical point of view. But that’s the same with VHS vs Betamax. You just have to go with the popular choice, even though it is worse than others.

People also want to use drugs that cause addiction. Is that a good reason to design and create more of them?

Someone with a vested interest in s healthy, functional society of educated adults.

I don't know what upscrolled is, but if it's not federated then who cares?

You care enough to write about the specific app that, you don’t know about.

Your account is 4 days old, that says enough. I won’t respond to you after this comment.

Exactly. Ethically sourced brainrot is still brainrot

If you were an educated adult, you’d know that banning drugs tends to cause more harm. You’d also know that some drugs have positive effects on learning, cognition, attention, memory, mood, emotional regulation, and empathy, when used appropriately and responsibly. All of which contributes to a society of healthy and educated adults.

Short text can be as afdictive as short videos yrt one seems ok and the other not

Ok, that makes sense. I haven't read a ton of technical critiques of ActivityPub. Any recommendations?

"Get in loser we are going to open-source a turd"

I was talking about specifically about drugs that cause addiction, not all kinds of drugs in general. Also, I said nothing about banning drugs or anything else. I just don't understand why to produce more of that shit when we as society can't deal with what's already out there.

I'm a developer looking for a new pet project. This sound line a fun challenge :) open source multi platform compose app. I might just start it today

You could also implement features that reduce the addictivity as the EU might be demanding of Tik Tok in the future. When it's a federated open source platform with no profit motive that's going to be something much more easy to get in.

yeah I'm not sure Upscrolled is going to be an improvement over Tik Tok in the long run in any way. Not open source or federated, probably will be even easier for Trump-supporting billionaires to buy it than TT for example. Supporting Loops makes much more sense.

Yes, exactly. It's just a way to successfully manipulate people to believe how you want them to.

And we don't want leftists doing that, so let's make it a moral failing.

To use it to deprogram the next generation of fascist

Not unless you count scrolling up a bit as consent to see nsfl stuff.

Keep me informed!👌👍🤞

People don't want an addicting, toxic, alienating, depressing, billionaire-owned platform.

They want a addicting, toxic, alienating, depressing, non-billionaire-owned platform ... Apparently.

Is there porn yet? I've found the prevalence of pornography to be a good indicator of how free the speech is on any platform. If you can't see a titty, it's probably pretty canned.

I wonder if it will function more like Vine?

Maybe it's because I'm a decade older now, but Vine seemed awesome and I would jump on it for 10-20 minutes a day and have no problem putting it down, even forgetting to check it a week at a time.

I haven't touched tik tok because it seems like it is much more toxic and addictive in comparison.

Is it so wrong to want to watch a funny video from time to time on the bus? IMO the best thing about loops, piefed or whatever is that there's so little on here that you can open your app of choice for about 30 minutes to an hour and then be done for the week.

Is it so wrong to just take a little hit of heroin from time to time?

Short form content is actively making people dumber, causing speech impediments in kids by cause their parents and themselves are addicted to the dopamine hit of scrolling.

Are you going to ban alcohol as well because that's a neurotoxin?

Maybe you put down the pop science magazine for five seconds and understand that a single study, or even five studies, does not a consensus make. You sound like moms against video games or whatever the hell like it was called it back in the 2000s.

Also, great job completely ignoring the point about non-incorporated vectors for engaging with short form videos don't have enough content for you to continuously scroll.

Yeah, that's why it's so hard to ditch those major platforms. Because you could join an alternative but it would likely mean not being able to interact with many things, not sure if I would make that trade-off.

I hate TikTok too, but it's not going away without comprehensive legislation regulating social media. Until then, a fediverse alternative that's not ruled by corporate algorithms would at least be a form of harm reduction. Think of it like a Safe Injection Site program; it's not great that they're still using, but at least they're getting clean needles.

I'll tell you what, that's a fair point.

Not sure about OP, but I think that yes, end goal should be banning alcohol consumption completely.

I guess we should get rid of sweet foods as well, as people can get addicted to that and it can lead to obesity.

I would argue, based on my perception of people who use and abuse those platforms, as well as data to suggest and confirm the above descriptors, that yes it is so wrong lol

I mean, you're free to eat mcdonalds all you want, but let's not pretend it's a healthy choice in any way you measure it

That's... maybe not the greatest screenshot to use if you want to support them. The nearly invisible, black-on-dark-blue heading kinda makes it look vibe coded

Treat them like nicotine?

Exactly. I have ZERO desire to use this app, or even PixelFed for that matter. Does that platform even have a legit user base or just bots?