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Out of curiosity is there a FOSS (add-free) short form video type social media? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yeah why did vine fail but tiktok take off? I never understood that

[–] firewood010 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

TikTok's algorithm. It does a lot of things against modern morals but people inherently like them. It is not inclusive and pro-erotic. And ease of use too. Plus state funded money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

So twitter needed a thot detector that calculated skin exposed percent, and put that into everyone's feed? Then vine woulda taken off, you reckon?

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