You should get in contact with the people behind: https://loops.video/
The main dev is the one that also does Pixelfed and he needs developer help and also asked for it specifically for Loops.
I'm a dev but not very good at mobile.
I can promise you that a lot of engineering work went into making the tiktok scrolling experience so smooth. Part of the trick is having a good enough algorithm that the user wants to watch the majority of served videos.
Another huge part of it is having lightning fast content distribution and aggressive "prefetching" of the next videos in the feed.
I don't want to discourage you but I also don't want you to be caught off guard by the difficulty. Do you want to make this bad enough to give it your nights and weekends for a year?
Thanks for answering
I am not planning on the algorithm part as it is too far for me and lemmy one is sufficient. That means you won't be scrolling for hours when you have catched up news, but I think it's a good thing since I don't want the addiction part. I was thinking about a very simplistic app with only the feeds we get in other clients, simpler than current clients.
I might have considered it too easy though looking at what you say
You're welcome!
So if you didn't care about having to wait for the video to buffer on every scroll, it becomes an easier problem. I kind of think that defeats the purpose of a tiktok-style interface though.
I agree that you wouldn't necessarily need to build a new algorithm, but like I said, it's part of the smooth scrolling magic
The creator of pixelfed is working on a tiktok alternative loops, although for now it's in private beta.
For a starting point that is available now, you could look at Pixeldroid, an open source pixelfed app.
Thank you that's interesting
please make it work with akkoma/pleroma
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