A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse
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Loops promises to bring the TikTok experience to the fediverse.

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

    • Fuck YankiesEnglish
      21•2 months ago

      Screw the privacy policy, bruh, read that TOS:

      When you post Contributions, you grant us a license (including use of your name, trademarks, and logos): By posting any Contributions, you grant us an unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide right, and license to: use, copy, reproduce, distribute, sell, resell, publish, broadcast, retitle, store, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part), and exploit your Contributions (including, without limitation, your image, name, and voice) for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, your Contributions, and to sublicense the licenses granted in this section. Our use and distribution may occur in any media formats and through any media channels.

      In other words, you put any content up there, they can resell it to some movie studio AND make an AI copy of you with no consequences… at least according to their ToS.

      EU law however… well, time will tell how fast and violently EU lawyers will inject themselves into the urethra of the service provider.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️English
        14•2 months ago

        They even contradict themselves in this shit. There’s what you quoted, but there is also this bit further up in a previous section:

        We do not assert any ownership over your Contributions. You retain full ownership of all of your Contributions and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with your Contributions. We are not liable for any statements or representations in your Contributions provided by you in any area on the Services. You are solely responsible for your Contributions to the Services and you expressly agree to exonerate us from any and all responsibility and to refrain from any legal action against us regarding your Contributions.

        “We can use your shit however we like, but if your shit is illegal, you’re the one who’ll be responsible; not us.”

        • Hellfire103English
          1•2 months ago

          Apparently, that’s required for the App Store and Google Play. The guy behind it has said he has no intention of taking advantage.

      • Fuck YankiesEnglish
        3•2 months ago

        And before you go “it’s to avoid liability”, fucking duh - it doesn’t make it right though.