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A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source (www.theverge.com)

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Signups opened this week for Loops, a short-form looping video app from the creator of Instagram alternative Pixelfed, reports TechCrunch.

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[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 53 points 10 hours ago

Im guessing it's going to be missing all the features that make tiktok popular like duets and pedophilia.

[-] subignition@fedia.io 14 points 10 hours ago

Thanks for the uncomfortable chuckle.

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[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 70 points 11 hours ago

They don't have to sell or provide videos to third parties, because they can just do it themselves.

That's the nature of actual federation. It's not private.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 15 points 11 hours ago

We are literally training the future AI that will suppress mankind by our social media chats.

Nice.

[-] ogeist@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

But they will have a mean onion dip recipe

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

The recipe includes glue.

[-] ogeist@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Great pizza

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago

The cruel age of the onion dip will sear agony upon not just our souls, but our eyes and nostrils.

[-] rodneylives@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

I signed up for Loops the first day. I didn't get an email confirmation until two days after, and I still haven't been given a way to sign in.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Who is going to pay to host all this content?

Also wish it were 5 or 10 minute limit rather than 60 seconds.

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[-] skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 hours ago

Lemmy’s final boss..

Then again, Lemmy and ActivityPub are (by design) wide open to anyone, including TenCent

[-] angelmountain@feddit.nl 5 points 8 hours ago

I don't really need any form of TikTok im afraid

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 6 points 9 hours ago

Granted, TicTok is worse than cancer so technically speaking this is of course a "good" step. But I have such a distaste (or rather hatred) for this type of content (same with Shorts), that I still cannot feel good about it.

[-] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 7 points 10 hours ago

short-form looping video

What about regular videos?

[-] manucode@infosec.pub 27 points 10 hours ago

There's already Peertube for that.

[-] compostgoblin@slrpnk.net 14 points 10 hours ago

PeerTube?

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 hours ago

anyone actually get an account? i signed up as soon as it was announced a year or so ago and haven't heard a peep.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

Headline should say coming TO the Fediverse.

"I'm coming for you!" has a very different meaning

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