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dansup
@dansup@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

I get that people may think that Loops is simply a TikTok clone.

But a clone wouldn't ship 26k LoC to add ActivityPub support*, publish all source code under AGPL, or support full data export and migration.

Most TikTok competitors are driven by financial motives, whereas Loops isn't.

This matters. A lot.

You can't serve two masters — either you serve your people, or you serve the money.

We chose people. ❤️

https://joinloops.org

* - https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server/commit/5b0e77806c53c0cd1c68c9f09e06f16ad0debc3e

#loops #weChosePeople

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Aurochs
@aurochs@todon.eu replied  ·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago

@dansup I imagine an android app is coming :-)

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dansup
@dansup@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago

@aurochs yes!

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Aurochs
@aurochs@todon.eu replied  ·  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

@dansup Great!! ❤️

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nieuemma
@nieuemma@mastodon.de replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@dansup boy do I love a good AGPL software. If only I cared for tiktok style content.

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dvd
@dvdp@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@dansup It’s shit that you’re forcing us with Sign-Up/Logins with Loops and Pixelfed. I blame ActivityPub (& Mastodon) for this. If you really want safety for your people. Stop collecting that information from us. Nostr’s Damus is way easier with just a username to Sign-In/Logins. Even Mewe is better with "Magic Link” Passwordless. Please dude fix it. Have that put in to your apps man.

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Phoenix Gee
@phoenixgee@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@dansup I kinda finished the Dockerfile + compose.yml to the point of 'works on my machines' - are you interested in that yet?

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dansup
@dansup@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@phoenixgee yeah please send a PR!

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Oma_Trisha_F
@Oma_Trisha_F@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@dansup Wow. This looks fascinating.

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Kevin Veen-Birkenbach
@kevinveenbirkenbach@microblog.veen.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@dansup Is #OIDC already included into loops? Would like to integrate it into the #InfinitoNexus Framework :)

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labbatt50
@labbatt50@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@dansup

That's several features above tickety-tock. Never used it, never plan to.

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abben
@abbenm@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@dansup what do you do for funding these days?

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Zark Muckerburg
@64bithero@mstdn.games replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@dansup for me it’s a lack of any meaningful content. At best it’s repost from TikTok’s Loops has such a low adoption rate. You need to move it the App Store proper if you hope to get any traction.

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Zark Muckerburg
@64bithero@mstdn.games replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@dansup you can only search by username (which doesn’t seem to work so great) there is no hashtag search support it seems.

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hiphopheaven
@hiphopheaven@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@dansup unique features is what differenciate a clone from a real different app. Being Open source or decentralized do not make app app less of a clone. You yourself said in a previous post that you made the interface similar to tiktok

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Mister Shade
@mister_shade02X2@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@dansup

“It’s on us to offer something better.”

Anyone who is interested in opposing #TikTok and trying to draw people away from the right-wing propaganda machine it has become should investigate and promote alternatives.

Just bleating “Don’t use Tiktok” won’t work on a lot of people. Better to give them a different option.

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Vector Hugo
@gfkdsgn@burma.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Well said @dansup
That's what makes @loops different on another level.

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Arazil
@arazil@elvenstar.cafe replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@dansup Thanks for providing us with a sane Tik Tok alternative in an otherwise insane (and hostile!) world.

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Lucas Wolford
@lucaswolford@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@dansup with the forced gov’t sale of TT, there could not be a better time to migrate to #loops. I’m really excited for a federated short-form video content platform! 🎉

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