5mo ago

The website for Loops.video now has a countdown timer, indicating three days until... something. Either Skynet awakening, or the opening for registration of the new federated TikTok style app.

Loops, explore and share short videos on the fediverse. Available soon!

I don't know if you have heard, but Loops.video is a Reels/Tiktok like app from the creator of Pixelfed. I recall it being announced, and checked just now on a whim. All of a sudden, it appears pretty close to ready to launch!

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Remindme! 4 days
- Postponed 11 days unfortunately due to Meta shenanigans
- Just ping @remindme@mstdn.social
  
  Good to know, cheers!
  
  https://mstdn.social/u/remindme 4 days
  
  Looks like you needed to actually @ the bot, but here's your late reminder. Unfortunately Loops got postponed about a week due to Meta being a-holes and naming a different thing Loops, but they should hopefully be up next Sunday.
  
  thanks
- Remindme works on lemmy?
  
  Apparently https://mstdn.social/u/remindme does. 🤞
- Remindme! 4 days
  
  Loops got postponed unfortunately
  
  @remindme@mstdn.social 4 days
  
  @wanderingmagus Ok, I will remind you on Wednesday Oct 9, 2024 at 3:01 PM PDT.
  
  Me also
  
  Unfortunately they postponed it 11 days because Meta, of course, also announced an unrelated program named "Loops", and now the FOSS project manager doesn't want to release something that would seem like an afterthought in comparison. 11 days is apparently enough time to do last-minute ultra-polishing to get it ready to tell Threads to go f itself. We'll see what happens.
  
  It's a shame, I hope it will succeed. Do you think Meta's move is related and intentional?
  
  Very possible. It's not like Loops was a secret, and it would be a direct competitor to Instagram Reels. Plus, E/E/E and all that.
  
  I don't follow too much, so I don't know what E/E/E/ is, but it would be interesting if Meta is afraid of the fediverse.
  
  It stands for "embrace, extend, extinguish", a strategy used by Microsoft in the past to take over formerly open source projects.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
  Many people speculated that the creation of Threads and one-way federation was a similar tactic, and now with the Loops thing.
  
  Thank you for the explanation, it makes sense, destroy them while they are small.
  
  @wanderingmagus Here is your reminder!
  
  Thanks!

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