There is always Loops
You get to watch a couple of videos only without logging in. No search.
Yikes.
No one uses loops. That Dan dude went all in on such a silly thing. Won’t be surprised if itit dies in two years or becomes a zombie project.
Sadly no way to host your own instance yet, but it does look promising.
The git repo has a server installation guide.
IIRC that’s old news and you can now self host and there are other instances up.
They’re leaving like redditors to Lemmy. There’s dozens of them!
It’s more like Twitter to BlueSky, which was a pinch more.
… and just resets the cycle
OK, but currently it’s at least in the (relatively) good phase of the cycle
Literally anything but FOSS, huh?
Out of the frying pan and into a cold frying pan.
FOSS is just too much of a hassle for most people, unfortunately.
It unironically is, and it’s not entirely the fault of the users either. The average person doesn’t know what FOSS means, what instances are, or what a federated service is and many platforms do a poor job of explaining what those things are and why they are superior.
Additionally, people need to understand that FOSS is not a selling point to the average user and that throwing that term around will go in one ear and out the other. As far as they are concerned their apps are already free because they don’t have to pay a transactional monetary value for them and “open source” is beyond meaningless to them and they couldn’t care less.
There’s a FOSS tiktok equivalent?
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.
Fucking, lol. It’s not even close. How did you find that conclusion?
Tiktok shares a ton with third parties and needs a lot more permissions.
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Not federated. Nothing stops this app from getting worse in the future, right?
I trust my palestinian brother who created it
If they’re brown, they can’t let you down.
Well, Kanye never fails to entertain…
Idpol in a nutshell
I wish we had a good term to describe making assumptions about how an individual will behave based only on their nationality, race, or ethnicity.
I wouldn’t. This is from the app:
Here’s another:
One more:
They are switching in huge numbers. Literally dozens!
Is this like UpDog?
What’s UpDog?
not much, how 'bout you?
Got 'em
This made me lol
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).
Yeah, I gave it a shot. I opened the app, and immediately scrolled past a “Jews are secretly ruling the world” conspiracy theory post from a user named something like @ItsAlwaysTheJews… Okay, maybe a fluke. Not a great first impression, but let’s see what else the app has to offer. Then a few posts later there was a “Hitler was right about the Jews” post.
So yeah, it has definitely fallen prey to the Nazi Bar problem.
If you look into the founder, you’ll quickly realize that he’s very much biased and has a lot of agendas to push, and I have no doubt in mind that this is reflected in his platform.
You can be arguably impartial. Youre not banning them for being Nazis you’re banning them for all the stuff Nazis do like the racism. I would also argue you shouldn’t be politically impartial and just ban Nazis because Nazis should not feel welcomed.
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.
The guy who made the app is a Palestinian who’s both pro Palestine and trying to do the no political censorship gimmick, the end result? An app that’s infested with actual nazis.
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.
Are these people unaware that YouTube Shorts is a thing?
I am and that is why I actively avoid.
The attraction to tt was the algorithm. Yt’s algo is garbo. Yt just gives you more of the same, whereas tt would magically align you with your people and your needs. Yt is sorta trying to do that right now, but it’s all from spying on you, rather than algorithmically.
It’s like the difference between having a conversation with somebody irl about having itchy feet and then suddenly your algorithm is filled with ads for views cures for itchy feet, vs slowly figuring out that you’re neurodivergent, and then through watch time and liked comments, starting to feed you stuff that other people like you like, and you end up in whatever corner that is most useful to you.
It’s the difference between your platform ONLY being one video at a time and the devs HAVE to figure out what you MIGHT like, vs a platform that feeds you choices and a feed and tries to guess your categories and shit. It’s very, very different, and imo tt was much, much better.
It’s funny but, when people talk about what tiktok is just x-thing, they’re really really telling on themselves. Like if people say it’s just slop or teens dancing, it’s pretty well known, at least to people who have USED tiktok, that that’s really fucking bad unless the person is themselves a teen. Unfortunately, it’s usually a conservative senator or someone’s dad and it’s just eewwwww
Yt just gives you more of the same, whereas tt would magically align you with your people and your needs.
That sounds like the exact same thing to me but slower. And you seem to be implying that TikTok doesn’t spy on you, which I highly doubt.
From Wikipedia: “
UpScrolled was launched in June 2025 by Recursive Methods Pty Ltd.[2][3] It was founded by Issam Hijazi, a Palestinian-Australian app developer who previously worked for IBM and Oracle.[3][4] UpScrolled is backed by the Tech for Palestine incubator.
So much for being impartial.
I feel like every platform outside of the Fediverse is like this nowadays.
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.
Wow the ads for this app keep appearing! It will be another blue sky in less than a year
So, better than TikTok?
Low bar but sure!
So when it was owned by China with the same spiral of destructive propaganda it was fine? ok
Presumably when China asked for your immigration status or sexual orientation, which they didn’t, it wasn’t to send you to the camps.
So yeah, for Americans it would be worse.
It will get worse than in China. It will be a tool to protect dictatorship in the usa, the american gestapo and protecting Israeli genocide
Was tiktok trying to prevent people from talking about the PedoTUS’s best bud Jeff, even in DMs? Or is that part cool with you?
I’m not that deep into MAGA lore that I’d knew what PedoTUS means or who’s Jeff and I’m sure TikTok sucks more than ever, but my point is, it always sucked infernally, from day one, and never should have been used in the first place.
User has strong options on topic they know very little about, news at 11
The people here are complete idiots who see no issue with Chinese spyware, mass data collection for military uses, and their massive propaganda campaigns. TikTok was always meant to be a weapon for control, that’s why the app is banned in China. They have a different clone of the app that’s exclusive to the China that has an algorithm that heavily promotes positive and educational content.
