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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] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I was legit asking if it just was a Pixelfed instance or a fork of the project with new features.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Same Dev, different product (name and features) , codebase maybe similar/same.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

It is created by the samw dev as pixelfed - wouldn't be surprised if parts were reused to bootstrap quickly.