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Loops aims to be an open Fediverse alternative to TikTok, Snapchat, and Vine. We take an early look at the app, and talk about what it's like!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 hours ago (10 children)

If I understand it right.. it will be much more costly to host videocentric platform than other types of content. A serious proposal for sharing the burden of hosting will likely be vital - through funding or decentralized storage/processing. Havent heard about that yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

the videos get automatically deleted after some time.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

The very first Youtube video is still up. Any serious competitor is going to need to offer that level of reliability with added benefits to woo users over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Loops isn't competing with youtube. I doubt you would be able to find the first tiktok.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

have you considered that a platform for sharing short, vertical videos, developed by a single person, perhaps isn't trying to become a "serious competitor" for Youtube?

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