Fediverse, the ecosystem is a decentralized and connected to the social media, as it prepares to host a new member: Loops, and a platform for the sharing of videos and short looping, who aspires to become viable alternatives to open-source on TikTok. Developed by Daniel Supernault, the creator of the Pixelfed (while federuar of Instagram), Loops and opened the recording of this week, despite the fact that it's still under development.
Loops: While open source is TikTok about to be debuted in the Fediverse
While Loops is not yet fully open-source, and it is not fully integrated with the ActivityPub, the protocol behind the Mastodon, and the application of the federuara, these two goals are at work. Once achieved, they will allow the Loops to contribute to the enhancement of the social network to be open, to be known as the Fediverse, which now has over 11.6 million users and more than 1 million users active in months. The growth in this area has pushed the app to the other, such as Flipboard, and the Threads of the Spot, and to adopt the ActivityPub.
The principles of privacy, and economic sustainability
Different from many of the traditional Loops pledges to not sell or share any information of users to advertisers and other third parties, do not use the content of the user to train the model as well as do not obtain the rights to the content of the charge. Users will retain ownership and full of contributions, and given only a permit Loops to use them. Moreover, the Loops are not going to rely on the support of foreign investors, but they will seek to finance itself through the donations of users through platforms such as Patreon, Open Collective, and Liberapay.
The features and designs of the future
Loops, conditions for users aged 13 and older, will deliver the item to be recognized as well as the ability to follow other users, permission, commenting and sharing the video. Thanks to the integration with the ActivityPub, the users of the platforms to the other federuara will also be able to interact with the contents of the Loops. Moderating the videos will be based on a result of the belief of the connector, while the other features, such as the separation of the profiles, and the ability to the users of the Loops for the following users of the platforms to the other, they are still under development.
Loops will initially be available as an APK file and downloadable on Android and TestFlight for iOS, with an interface to the internet that it will come at a later date.
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