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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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (4 children)

Who is going to pay to host all this content?

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

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

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

Yeah, was my first thought as well. As far as I can see it’s the same problem PeerTube is having and last I checked, were still trying to solve. (For context: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/5783 )

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

My thought was that the video loading probably isn't going to be nearly as fast as TikTok because of the money behind their servers and optimization.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I think you misunderstand how money is made off of these kind of things. Companies like TikTok, and YouTube make money by showing you ads and collecting data on you to sell.

A federated app, like this one we are talking about, is ad free, open source, and does not collect data on it's users for resale. Video hosting costs a lot of money, so unless users are willing to donate to keep it up and running, it will quickly run out of server space to host videos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

yeah i understand that (in fact that's kinda what i said in another comment). i'm making the case for why the time limit needs to be 60 seconds. you can already filter 10min videos in normal video platforms iirc