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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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Who is going to pay to host all this content?

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

[–] LesserAbe 1 points 1 month ago

My thought was that the video loading probably isn't going to be nearly as fast as TikTok because of the money behind their servers and optimization.

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