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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)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 25 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Very cool that its federated but to be honest i just dont like this kind of short form content. I ratherd watch a youtube video.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yep. The world just needs more stupid videos from stupid people. Just federated.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, though. You can assume them stupid, but nobody would use these forms of media if they viewed them the same. It’s just world moving on and leaving us greybeards behind, muttering about how stupid the new things are. Like the generation of our parents did for our interests, and theirs before them, and theirs before them, and so on.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Ignoring the myriad of other issues listed in this thread, the bit about training AI is pretty misleading. It's not hard to scrape webpages for whatever kind of data you like, even if loops doesn't outright hand things over for third parties for that purpose.

And the kind of people who are downloading the entire internet to train AIs are the type to be willing to just scrape without permission.

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

Not that that has anything to do with them of course.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

They are claiming not to train AI using your videos/info theirselves. I don't think it's misleading just because other people can scrape that info.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it just a Pixelfed instance but yellow?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

possibly, but couldn't that be said about instagram and tiktok too?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I was legit asking if it just was a Pixelfed instance or a fork of the project with new features.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

It is created by the samw dev as pixelfed - wouldn't be surprised if parts were reused to bootstrap quickly.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Same Dev, different product (name and features) , codebase maybe similar/same.

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