Comment on 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

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Prandom_returns@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have the same question, because many mastodon instances are barely keeping up with the costs of hosting pictures + text.

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• mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, was my first thought as well. As far as I can see it’s the same problem PeerTube is having and last I checked, were still trying to solve. (For context: github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/5783 )

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• LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My thought was that the video loading probably isn’t going to be nearly as fast as TikTok because of the money behind their servers and optimization.

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