This app could potentially supplant Tik Tok overtime. As Tik Tok's censorship following it's acquisition by US investors such as Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based MGX, and UpScrolled already having questionable ethics, this may be the path forward.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's misleading, they plan on being open sourced according to pubs:

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.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/25/the-fediverse-is-getting-its-own-tiktok-competitor-called-loops/

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait, what's this if it's closed source? https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago

I'm not trying to fight with you, I'm trying to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. Maybe we could get the creator to come in here and explain what's going on.

[–] Sippeon1@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

My apologies, I called UpScrolled closed source because it is, not Loops.

[–] alonsohmtz@feddit.uk 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Oh, that's good to know.

There is now no reason to care about it.

spoiler

Unless you're an idiot.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

So Loops is open sourced then?

[–] Sippeon1@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago

Yes.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 points 23 hours ago

Oh, that makes a lot more sense.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That article is over a year old and it's still not open source.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Isn't piefed open source? You might be right, but we'll see, yeah?

Edit: What would be the benefit of waiting to become open source? Piefed seems to be a great platform, that's why I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. But again, I could be wrong and he's super greedy.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Pixelfed ≠ Piefed

but it is open source

Pixelfed is open-sourced software licensed under the AGPL license. https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed?tab=readme-ov-file#license

edit: Looks like Loops is open-source as well :

https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server#license

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago

You're right, I thought it was the Piefed guy.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 points 23 hours ago

Pixelfed (Instagram-like) not PieFed (Reddit-like)

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 23 hours ago

The benefit is less distractions and pointless organization for a project in the early stages

Open sourcing things is a pain in the ass. It's common to get the core project working before doing so