The Fediverse Is Getting Its Own TikTok Competitor Called Loops (techcrunch.com) 13
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called Loops began accepting signups on its new platform for sharing short, looping videos. Still in the early stages, Loops is not yet open sourced, nor has it completed its integration with ActivityPub, the protocol that powers Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, and other federated apps. However, both those efforts are in the works and when complete, will allow Loops to add another layer of social activity to the growing open social web known as the fediverse, which now has north of 11.6 million users and over 1 million monthly active users. (Mastodon accounts for roughly 65% of that activity.) Growth in this space has also encouraged other apps to adopt ActivityPub, like social magazine app Flipboard and Meta's Threads. The latter is not yet fully integrated but already has more than 200 million monthly active users.
Loops, meanwhile, was developed by Daniel Supernault, who also created the federated Instagram rival Pixelfed. In fact, Loops will run under the Pixelfed project, according to an FAQ on its website. [...] Aimed at users 13 and up, Loops will allow you to follow other users, as well as like, comment on, or share their videos. But as a part of the federated web -- the open social web running on ActivityPub -- remote users from other platforms like Mastodon and Pixelfed will also be able to follow users' Loops accounts and then view the videos in their home feed on those respective platforms. These remote followers will also be able to like, comment on, or share videos if their platform supports it. Videos published to the app will be held for moderation if the uploader has a low trust score, but trusted users will be able to skip the queue and publish immediately. The trust score is also used to hide problematic comments on posts and apply content warnings, Supernault notes. Other features, like profile sharing or the ability for Loops users to follow Mastodon and Pixelfed users in return, are still "to be announced," the site notes.
Loops, meanwhile, was developed by Daniel Supernault, who also created the federated Instagram rival Pixelfed. In fact, Loops will run under the Pixelfed project, according to an FAQ on its website. [...] Aimed at users 13 and up, Loops will allow you to follow other users, as well as like, comment on, or share their videos. But as a part of the federated web -- the open social web running on ActivityPub -- remote users from other platforms like Mastodon and Pixelfed will also be able to follow users' Loops accounts and then view the videos in their home feed on those respective platforms. These remote followers will also be able to like, comment on, or share videos if their platform supports it. Videos published to the app will be held for moderation if the uploader has a low trust score, but trusted users will be able to skip the queue and publish immediately. The trust score is also used to hide problematic comments on posts and apply content warnings, Supernault notes. Other features, like profile sharing or the ability for Loops users to follow Mastodon and Pixelfed users in return, are still "to be announced," the site notes.
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Its a collection of self-hosted, usually open-source, federated social media platforms. They for the most part use Activity Pub as their underlining protocol so that platforms can communicate with each other to distribute the load of hosting social media instead of relying on a monolithic tech company to do all the hosting.
Im personally on Lemmy.World (federated Reddit clone) and its honestly a much healthier experience than Reddit but it lacks niche communities. Im hopeful for the Fediverse, but so far i
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"The Fediverse" is what we all used to call "The News"
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So the Threaded Mastadons can now travel in Loops.
I mean, they still aren't thing, but now they are a more comprehensive not-thing!
Will be known as Fruit Loops !!! (Score:1)
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I'm sure it will take off the fediverse.....where a woman got raped online it in....virtually. She didn't know how to disconnect. fediverse...where no one showed up.
A woman got raped online? Wow, I didn't realize our technological progress had gotten so violent.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me, to "using the wrong pronoun even if you didn't know my preference is an actual act of violence against me," to being raped online. What an amazing world. We keep going at this rate, and pretty soon being forced to leave your house will be considered an act of war. Goddamned return to office mandates!
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Yawn! (Score:1)