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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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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Who is going to pay to host all this content?

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

[–] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 7 points 6 hours ago

I have the same question, because many mastodon instances are barely keeping up with the costs of hosting pictures + text.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org -3 points 8 hours ago

the idea is that you just watch them when you have a tiny gap to kill (and thus you become addicted)