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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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[–] precarious_primes@lemmy.ml 280 points 3 weeks ago (50 children)

Maybe I'm just old, but I traveled by plane recently (I don't fly very often) and seeing everyone around me mindlessly scrolling short-form video content was shocking. Looked identical to the people in the space ship in WALL-E.

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 255 points 3 weeks ago (29 children)

Dude, it's the airport. It's boring as fuck.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 111 points 3 weeks ago (18 children)

So are 10 second videos.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 weeks ago

also not a fan of them, but people are enjoying it. so by definition it's not boring for them

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