The website for Loops.video now has a countdown timer, indicating three days until... something. Either Skynet awakening, or the opening for registration of the new federated TikTok style app.

@[email protected] · 5 days ago

@tomsh · 15 hours ago

It’s a shame, I hope it will succeed. Do you think Meta’s move is related and intentional?

wanderingmagus · 12 hours ago

Very possible. It’s not like Loops was a secret, and it would be a direct competitor to Instagram Reels. Plus, E/E/E and all that.

@tomsh · 6 hours ago

I don’t follow too much, so I don’t know what E/E/E/ is, but it would be interesting if Meta is afraid of the fediverse.

wanderingmagus · 6 hours ago

It stands for “embrace, extend, extinguish”, a strategy used by Microsoft in the past to take over formerly open source projects.

Many people speculated that the creation of Threads and one-way federation was a similar tactic, and now with the Loops thing.