It’s not finished. It’s not perfect. But it’s real. 🥹 Loops is now open, built in public, and growing every day — laying the groundwork for a future where you can build your own TikTok. A future where governments can’t censor you. Where corporations can’t control the conversation. Where the social web belongs to the people again. This is how it starts. ✊

Loops - Short videos. Your community. Your rules.

All the fun of short-form video, none of the corporate control. Loops is federated, open-source, and designed to give power back to creators and co...

#loops #tikTok #activityPub #freedom #federation

They want you to think “Skylight” is the future of short-form video. But it’s just another closed, investor-owned clone. Loops is different: 🌱 open source 🌍 federated ⚙️ production-ready 📜 better ToS 📚 full API docs 📱 official app coming soon I kept my word — no VC money, no walled gardens. Because we deserve a real TikTok alternative, built for the people. ❤️

Loops - Short videos. Your community. Your rules.

All the fun of short-form video, none of the corporate control. Loops is federated, open-source, and designed to give power back to creators and co...

Spread the word ✨ #loops

This is my largest commit of all time I think 😅

GitHub

Add ActivityPub Federation · joinloops/loops-server@5b0e778

- Add full ActivityPub incoming/outgoing support - Webfinger support - SharedInbox support - Nodeinfo support - Authorized Fetch support -

Loops urls are apparently not favoured by app developers because they don't look like urls from other software. That's okay. It's intentional, we don't include usernames in urls because we plan to support username changes, and our comment permalinks are shorter than a Mastodon actor url, and it's gorgeous. Loop Post:

test #photography #video #... - @admin | Loops

test #photography #v... • 44 likes • 20 comments

Loop Comment:

test #photography #video #... - @admin | Loops

test #photography #v... • 44 likes • 20 comments

Loop Comment Reply:

test #photography #video #... - @admin | Loops

test #photography #v... • 44 likes • 20 comments

#loops

I can't believe Loops is finally federating 😭 I spent the past year building up to this, and I couldn't have done this without your support. Thank you ❤️ See for yourself:

test #photography #video #... - @admin | Loops

test #photography #v... • 44 likes • 20 comments

#loops

oh my gosh, the first remote Loops comment 😍 Shoutout to @Lety Does Stuff for making history! #loops

Big news! 🎉 Loops federation is working beautifully! Want proof? Search this URL in your fediverse app and check out the comment/mention threading in action:

test #photography #video #... - @admin | Loops

test #photography #v... • 44 likes • 20 comments

Spread the word, the fediverse now has an open source TikTok alternative that is truly decentralized. #loops #loopsDev #tikTok #activitypub

Loops is federating with Mastodon and Pixelfed 🥳 I'm still doing some tests, and will be pushing the ActivityPub PR shortly ✨ #loops #activitypub #federation #mastodon #pixelfed

The fediverse needs better developer resources. The kind ATProto has. Fixing that gap: rich documentation, interactive examples, instant prototyping. Built indie-style with FediDB, browser.pub and other community resources to create a better foundation for the next generation of fediverse developers. Sometimes one spark is all it takes. Share if you care ✨ #ActivityPub #soon

So Loops has public hashtag feeds, but they are limited for guests, and after reaching the end of the limited feed, will show this modal instead of what Pixelfed does (which is only show 20 posts per tag even though there are more). I think it's a much better UX, and while I'd love to provide infinite scroll feeds for guests, it would be easily abused by (AI) crawlers. Privacy and Safety come first 😎 #loops #loopsDev