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Re: Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

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Post by saghm »

kelipso wrote: post #52
wolvoleo wrote: post #46

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The problem I find with it is that it's such a monoculture. Everyone is copying everyone else. As an example: there's this stupid skit going around. Someone asks a waiter "Could I ask you about the menu please?". The waiter comes really close and goes like "The men I please is none of your business". It's an ok joke but I've seen literally 20 different people doing the same skit in the last two weeks and it gets so d…

Yeah that’s what memeing is. What is this, 2000s internet and we start discovering what memes are or something.

Obviously meme formats from when I was younger (images and text) are fine, but meme formats that are newer (video and text) and brainrot. Or maybe it's just the same thing every generation does where they think the generations before them were hopelessly out of touch but the kids nowadays have no taste...

Re: Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

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Post by wolvoleo »

kelipso wrote: post #52
wolvoleo wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem I find with it is that it's such a monoculture. Everyone is copying everyone else. As an example: there's this stupid skit going around. Someone asks a waiter "Could I ask you about the menu please?". The waiter comes really close and goes like "The men I please is none of your business". It's an ok joke but I've seen literally 20 different people doing the same skit in the last two weeks and it gets so d…

Yeah that’s what memeing is. What is this, 2000s internet and we start discovering what memes are or something.

Memes were usually funny though. And just pictures so easily ignored if they weren't. I feel like this is just attention seeking.

Re: Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

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Post by SpecialistK »

sodapopcan wrote: post #55
SpecialistK wrote: post #51

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Better ways to waste time. If I'm on the toilet not having a fun time, pardon me for wanting to see some cat videos instead of solving a Rubik's Cube, I guess?

You're pardoned, but I have much more fond memories of magazine baskets in bathrooms. Today you should at least have a Switch in there ;) But also, of course people aren't just using these apps in the bathroom, they are using them everywhere. If they didn't exist, you wouldn't miss scrolling the bathroom.

The Economist app and Inoreader are higher on my front page than Instagram is, so I am being slightly tongue in cheek.

But I do maintain that there is a place for mindless time killing. Life is stressful, I'm constantly switching between different projects and responsibilities, and a few minutes of mindless scrolling is nice.

But it is very addicting and can very easily vacuum up many hours of time I can't get back.

Re: Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

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Post by panick21 »

wolvoleo wrote: post #62
kelipso wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah that’s what memeing is. What is this, 2000s internet and we start discovering what memes are or something.

Memes were usually funny though. And just pictures so easily ignored if they weren't. I feel like this is just attention seeking.

Most memes and most application of memes were not that funny. Scrolling reddit 10 years ago is not that different from TikTok just with pictures instead of videos.

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Post by rrr_oh_man »

jmyeet wrote: post #54

For 20+ years World of Warcraft has dominated the MMORPG genre. There have been a host of challengers and they've all miserably failed. In fact, there have only been a handful of successes (eg UO, EQ, FF14). And what do almost all of these challengers have in common? Some version of "the PvP is going to be amazing". Why do these companies like PVP? Because it's essentially user-generated content. It increases time sp…

This didn’t go where I thought it would. You made me chuckle. Thanks!

Re: Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

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Post by girvo »

wolvoleo wrote: post #62
kelipso wrote: post #52

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Yeah that’s what memeing is. What is this, 2000s internet and we start discovering what memes are or something.

Memes were usually funny though. And just pictures so easily ignored if they weren't. I feel like this is just attention seeking.

Eh. They really weren't. "I'm firin' mah lazer" wasn't funny and yet for a while it was ubiquitous. I'd wager in fact that most memes weren't inherently funny: their purpose is in-group signalling for the most part.

Re: Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

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Post by amarant »

wolvoleo wrote: post #62
kelipso wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah that’s what memeing is. What is this, 2000s internet and we start discovering what memes are or something.

Memes were usually funny though. And just pictures so easily ignored if they weren't. I feel like this is just attention seeking.

Weren't memes always just that? I think we're just old
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