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A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source (www.theverge.com)

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Signups opened this week for Loops, a short-form looping video app from the creator of Instagram alternative Pixelfed, reports TechCrunch.

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[–] trespasser69@lemmy.world -4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

TikTok has 2 versions:

One is what we use. People mindlessly scroll brainrot contents with algorithm desinged to as addictive as possible.

Another one is chinese version. It has actualy useful and educative content, but its China only.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think the national security risk from tiktok is people watching it while waiting an hour for the plane to actually take off.

it's from the clear boosting of propaganda.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

The boosting of propaganda and the identification, tracking and exploitation of government targets.

People in key government positions are still people like us and they love social media too. Having an app on their phone doing data mining can identify people of interest and then collect data, target and compromise them. Even without the app on a government issued phone they can identify key people using their personal phones and then target them for more sophisticated surveillance.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

As a Chinese person, no. Chinese version is just censored more. Both are good as far as format goes.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 3 points 2 weeks ago

Regardless of whether the content is "useful and educative" or "brainrot", I just don't seem how you can comprehend rapidly-changing and very short content at all, this just seems unnatural. Is that how ADHD feels like? And not like you can get comprehensive knowledge from such bite-sized videos anyway, maximum disjointed factoids.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not in china and I get chess, math and physics videos.