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Or Loops. You know, being open source, privacy respecting and all that.
Nah, just kidding. Who wants any of that when you have the little red book instead.
Rights are soooo gen X.
I like Loops too! I’ve ditched everything except Loops and RedNote for social media.
Or maybe people don’t want to join an app with no app (other than a TestFlight version, as far as I can see) and no user base? Maybe?
Or just touch grass
It’s always a bit ironic when people post this on the internet.
It’s not wrong, per se, but much more specific instructions on how not to waste your life would be nice. There’s old people that have spent their whole life on the metaphorical grass and are still dumb as shit.
Why not both? The grass isn’t that wonderful everywhere.
Because brain rot is brain rot for a reason
It’s only brain rot if it’s all you do all day long. Everything in moderation. It’s also often times the only window into other cultures for people that don’t have the money to travel. I’d rather scroll through stuff that teaches me something, than I would the endless US oligarchy brain rot feeds.
Loops privacy policy is shit btw.
Better that than TT or RedNote though.
I just read it on their website and it looks pretty standard. What’s so shite about it?
Sorry, my bad. The privacy is pretty standard, it’s the terms that are shady. Specifically §7
By posting your Contributions to any part of the Services or making Contributions accessible to the Services by linking your account from the Services to any of your social networking accounts, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to us an unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide right, and license to host, use, copy, reproduce, disclose, sell, resell, publish, broadcast, retitle, archive, store, cache, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, transmit, excerpt (in whole or in part), and distribute such Contributions (including, without limitation, your image and voice) for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such Contributions, and grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. The use and distribution may occur in any media formats and through any media channels.
This license will apply to any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed, and includes our use of your name, company name, and franchise name, as applicable, and any of the trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, and personal and commercial images you provide. You waive all moral rights in your Contributions, and you warrant that moral rights have not otherwise been asserted in your Contributions.
Thanks! Yeah, I saw this and thought it’s a bit disingenuous to push Loops as a “privacy” forward option when it’s all the same as any other social media TOS.
https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113848396412970536
also @lunarloony@lemmy.sdf.org so that I don’t have to spam the thread with replies
Someone broke it down here: https://bajsicki.com/blog/loops-video-terms/