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Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos
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Re: Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos
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I thought things had changed after ElsaGate but I peeked into the airbnb room at a friend's party the other day and the kids were watching youtube, and it seems that type of content still has a hold. The kids were watching some really long video of this guy that kept making an AI-esque youtube-thumbnail style open mouth face after some 5 second event occured. E.g: Man runs into door, makes youtube face. Man tries to…
Slight tangent, but it's my intuition that some version of this is the end game for media. Completely compelling, AI created, individually attuned videos generated in or near real time that appeal so well to the individual (adult) viewer they overwhelm our learned resistance. Infinite Jest, but rather than dying laughing you orient your entire life around engaging with the content.
if we can fit that power into a box that can fly with me to alpha centauri, i think we'll be ok
once we figure out feeding and waste management, entertainment over a low-bandwidth link will be tricky
Re: Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos
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> Until they turn 16 I intend to vet most media myself on a self-hosted server. Are you going to use the same methods your parents used to do this for you/
Yes. Before the internet, my parents looked at the PG rating of every movie we rented at Blockbuster. Many parents did.
Would you consider that good?
I grew up with the Internet and people sharing shock horror sites with some very questionable content. It seems we all mostly still grew up fine.
Re: Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos
#24Nice work!
Can we get a video demo of this in action? Curious what it looks like in desktop, too.
Re: Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos
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> Until they turn 16 I intend to vet most media myself on a self-hosted server. Are you going to use the same methods your parents used to do this for you/
When I was 16, nearly all the media I consumed was vetted/regulated by the FCC.
Really? I'm a millennial and most of the content I consumed came from
* Initially various Warez sources (KDX , eMule etc) (2000-2005 I think)
* later on liveleak, 4chan, digger (2006-2007? Not sure anymore),
* Then stumble upon, 9gag (08-10)
* finally ending at reddit (2010-2014, that was the year spez edited user comments. Very rarely used it since)
Re: Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. Before the internet, my parents looked at the PG rating of every movie we rented at Blockbuster. Many parents did.
Would you consider that good? I grew up with the Internet and people sharing shock horror sites with some very questionable content. It seems we all mostly still grew up fine.
There's a difference between accidentally stumbling on shocking TikTok content and willingly browsing a gore site.
If my kid really wants to check it, it might be acceptable, but I'm not ok with an algorithm showing it by surprise.
Re: Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos
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> The author's writing is fluent, but the whole thing is kind of odd. This is the Internet; the developer could be 17. Who knows. They may be 17 or 57, why does that matter? To me the Readme seems absolutely professional. Putting together some React UI lib, use Caddy, put it all in Docker, write a comprehensive Readme with everything there is to know about it and release it. Looks pretty standard (in a good way) to m…
Using the TikTok logo in the app is kinda inappripriate, but otherwise yeah, I think just saying “TikTok for X” gets the idea across in the most concise way. Adding some info on what the videos could be from would be nice though (i.e. do I paste a bunch of YouTube links, or upload files myself, or..?)
That was my original point though — it’s not saying that it’s “like TikTok” or “TikTok for X”, it’s literally saying that it is TikTok.
Edit: The title is “TikTok feed for your clips” so I guess in a literal sense it is describing itself as “TikTok for X”, but I think that’s kind of like saying that something is “Uber for ridesharing”. Yeah, that’s just Uber.
Re: Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos
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> Until they turn 16 I intend to vet most media myself on a self-hosted server. Are you going to use the same methods your parents used to do this for you/
When I was 16, nearly all the media I consumed was vetted/regulated by the FCC.
i bet before the internet?
Re: Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos
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Re: Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos
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When I was 16, nearly all the media I consumed was vetted/regulated by the FCC.
Really? I'm a millennial and most of the content I consumed came from * Initially various Warez sources (KDX , eMule etc) (2000-2005 I think) * later on liveleak, 4chan, digger (2006-2007? Not sure anymore), * Then stumble upon, 9gag (08-10) * finally ending at reddit (2010-2014, that was the year spez edited user comments. Very rarely used it since) I vividly remember watching pretty fucked up shit back then, like r…
However, none of that was fed to you by algorithms, but rather your own curiosity for weird stuff and your ability to find it. I am not saying that it is good or bad, but in my book, it is different from infinite algorithmic feeds we currently have.