Short videos.
Your community.
Your rules.
All the fun of short-form video, none of the corporate control. Loops is federated, open-source, and designed to give power back to creators and communities.joinloops.org
Yes we want to be able to hide slop, because it insults our brains and souls.
Why would anyone want to look at pictures or videos generated by copying e.g. actual photographers or artists, instead of watching or admiring the original?
Yes these kind of accounts bluntly copying recently posted pictures already exist e.g. on Pixelfed. They just download our images, throw them into a slop machine and post the output as "originals".
Those slops add zero none nada absolutely null value to our society or the arts and their sole purpose is attention seeking. And this at our all costs by burning vital resources.
I wouldn't mind banning them all. Let them do their scamming on TikTok or Insta, but not in the #fediverse.
You, the people, and NLnet, have funded a fully open TikTok alternative with web and mobile clients, ActivityPub federation and an opt-out For You feed algorithm that is privacy friendly.
Anyone can start their own Loops community, and we're working on an official hosting service to help fund development.
Join 🚀: joinloops.org/join-the-beta
Roadmap ✨: joinloops.org/roadmap
Donate 🙏: joinloops.org/donate
Source 🤖: github.com/joinloops
Loops vs Youtube Shorts vs TikTok
All the fun of short-form video, none of the corporate control. Loops is federated, open-source, and designed to give power back to creators and communities.joinloops.org
Digital AI Blackface
“Aliyah, a light-skinned Black woman dressed in country-western gear, is struggling to sell metal buckles she handmade on #TikTok.
In a video for the social media platform from March, she cries to the camera and pleads for views: “Even as a black woman, I have more faith that white women will stay 13 seconds [on this video] to save my belt buckle business,” the onscreen text reads.
She wipes a tear off her cheek.
But Aliyah isn’t real…
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…
Can race, guilt, and empathy get you to pay $40 for this $9 belt buckle on TikTok?Nicole Froio (The Verge)
Zeppelin Witheridge charged with public nuisance over ‘Scientology speedrun’ social media trendGuardian staff reporter (the Guardian)
Age limits and changes to allegedly addictive design features could be in place by the end of the yearJessica Elgot (the Guardian)
i look forward to you ditching #meta for the #fediverse 😁💙
you already have a @KrisGoldsmith account (unused for a few years)
we've got:
💙 #mastodon vs⛔ #threads
💙 #pixelfed vs⛔ #instagram
plus:
💙 #loops vs⛔ #tiktok
💙 #peertube vs⛔ #youtube
but as you mentioned in a yt vid, we need some "good" billionaires to invest in building the infrastructure we will need to start fighting fascists, especially to fight the tech-bro-chodes
Loops is the privacy focused alternative to TikTok, a fully self-hostable + ActivityPub federated platform.
A few highlights:
- Starter Kits: joinloops.org/starter-kits
- Embeds: dansup.github.io/loops-embed-d…
- Atom feeds: loops.video/feeds/1.atom
Learn more: joinloops.org/why-loops-matter…
Curated collections of accounts hand-picked by the community. Go from zero to a vibrant feed in seconds with Loops Starter Kits.joinloops.org
I lived in Los Angeles. I was involved in the music scene. This ain't nothin'.
m.ai6yr.org/@headlines_bot/116…
ABC7: A TikTok influencer, her father and another man have been charged in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting a singer in Los Angeles, prosecutors say. https://abc7.Headline Bot (AI6YR's Mastodon)
Campaigners warn against blanket restrictions and say focus should be on blocking teenagers from platforms with ‘risky’ featuresDan Milmo (the Guardian)
Researchers found that TikTok’s For You pages prioritized pro-Republican content in New York, Texas and GeorgiaSanya Mansoor (the Guardian)
The #WikimediaFoundation is signing a disturbing agreement with #Indonesia in order to allow Indonesian access to #Wikipedia.
france24.com/en/live-news/2026…
A provision in the agreement lets the govt "take down content deemed as 'causing public unrest and disturbing public order'."
Indonesia assured WF that the agreement was merely "administrative" and that "there would be no unlawful content takedown orders." But of course the agreement makes harmful takedowns lawful.
"Last October, Indonesia briefly suspended #TikTok's local operating licence after the social media platform refused to share information sought by Jakarta about violent anti-government protests earlier in the year."
The Wikimedia Foundation said Saturday it has found a compromise with the Indonesian government, which had threatened to block Wikipedia over domestic registration rules the foundation feared were overly…France 24
Creator card is designed for people making money through TikTok Live, who have complained of delays in paymentsSundus Abdi (the Guardian)
Experts say regulation of child influencers sits in a legal grey area as children promote products on social mediaCarmen Aguilar García (the Guardian)
UK representatives from Meta, Roblox and TikTok also tell MPs they believe under-16 ban would be ‘unenforceable’Sally Weale (the Guardian)
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C'est la toute dernière application du fédiverse ! Conçue pour exprimer votre créativité en publiant vos vidéos courtes, elle se substitue à TikTok, l'éthique en plus et les algorithmes en moins. Diffusez et partagez vos souvenirs, vos séquences rigolotes ou vos mèmes.
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This is the latest app from the Fediverse! Designed to let you express your creativity by posting short videos, it's a replacement for #TikTok, but with full ethics and no algorithms. Broadcast and share your memories, funny clips, or memes.
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PM summons senior figures from Meta, TikTok, Google and X and says social media is ‘putting our children at risk’Dan Milmo (the Guardian)
Commons rejects proposal by 256 to 150 to side with government on plan to tackle online harms affecting childrenDan Milmo (the Guardian)
Tarot card reader Ashley Guillard, who falsely accused history professor Rebecca Scofield, plans to appealRamon Antonio Vargas (the Guardian)
Thinktank says algorithms are fuelling isolation and division after analysing posts shown to social media usersJessica Murray (the Guardian)
Ofcom data points to more passive consumption amid changes to apps and fears about mental health and past postsDan Milmo (the Guardian)
Dozens of videos have gone viral on TikTok and Instagram showing harassment of Palestinians and activistsLorenzo Tondo (the Guardian)
When TikTok’s future felt uncertain, Tori White saw an opportunity.
On the latest Dot Social, @mike sits down with Skylight Social's CEO to talk about building a creator-first video platform on the AT Protocol. Watch the episode here, or find it wherever you get your podcasts.
flipboard.video/w/c9tgxs6U6Won…
#DotSocial #Podcast #OpenSocial #ATProto #ATmosphereConf #Skylight #TikTok
