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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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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As opposed to doing what exactly?

If you are upset by the video length I can provide you plenty of videos of absolute tosh that are over 18 minutes long.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

Reading, maybe. People don't read actual literature as much as they used to.

A long video would also be better for you, yes, instead of being designed to catch your attention and keep giving you dopamine hits.