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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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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 83 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They don't have to sell or provide videos to third parties, because they can just do it themselves.

That's the nature of actual federation. It's not private.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We are literally training the future AI that will suppress mankind by our social media chats.

Nice.

[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But they will have a mean onion dip recipe

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The recipe includes glue.

[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Great pizza

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

The cruel age of the onion dip will sear agony upon not just our souls, but our eyes and nostrils.