Loops - Short videos. Your community. Your rules.
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Now in Open Beta
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 communities across the social web. Build your community on a platform that can't lock you in.
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Open-source
Decentralized
Creator-friendly
No ads
FEATURES
Everything you love about
short-video — without the lock-in
Loops gives you modern creator tools, real community, and the freedom of the fediverse — not another walled garden.
FEEDS
Following & For You, tuned by the fediverse
A calm chronological Following feed for the people you trust — and a For You feed that surfaces new creators from across Loops and compatible ActivityPub servers. No dark-pattern growth hacks, just signals from real activity.
- • Vertical swipe short-video feed, built for thumb-first browsing
- • For You powered by engagement, hashtags, and social graph — not ads
- • Browse feeds with a web browser or our official mobile app
- • Works across Loops instances and other fediverse apps that support video
Camera
Creator-first camera for short video
Capture vertical loops with a minimal camera built for creators, not ads. Switch lenses, add captions, and post in seconds.
Conversations
Comments that stay in the thread
Rich comment threads with replies, likes on replies, and @mentions keep conversations anchored to the video — not lost in your inbox.
Engagement
Likes, shares & boosts that travel
Likes, shares, reposts, and comment likes all feed back into discovery — on your server and across the fediverse where it makes sense.
Discovery
Hashtags & search that find your people
Tag loops with hashtags, jump into topics, and search profiles or videos to find your corner of the fediverse.
Notifications
Notifications that respect your time
Control what pings you — likes, new followers, mentions, or none at all. Turn down the noise without missing what matters. Push notification support coming soon!
Federation
Built for Pixelfed & the fediverse
Loops speaks ActivityPub, so your videos can reach people on Mastodon, Pixelfed and other compatible apps — while you stay in control of your home server.
OUR MISSION
Reclaiming short-video sharing for humanity
" Loops was founded on a simple but powerful idea: social media should serve people, not exploit them.
We're building an ethical alternative to commercial short-video sharing platforms — a space where creators, people and visual artists can share their work without invasive tracking or data mining.
As an open-source project, we believe in radical transparency and true community governance. Every feature we build is designed with user privacy and experience in mind, not advertising revenue or engagement metrics.
Our Values
1
Privacy as a fundamental right
Your content is yours. Period.
2
Ethical design principles
No dark patterns or manipulative interfaces.
3
Global accessibility
Available to anyone with internet access.
4
Community ownership
Users have a voice in platform decisions.
5
Sustainable growth
Building for long-term impact, not quick profit.