Plot twist: TikTok's "secret sauce" is recommendation ML + video encoding (likely ffmpeg like the rest of us).
They built their empire on open source foundations.
We're doing the same with @loops but keeping it open, federated, and yours.
The magic was open source all along.
Who's really disrupting who?
Why Loops Matters.
In a world where platforms rise and fall at the whim of governments and boardrooms, we're building something that can't be shut down, sold off, or taken away.
(joinloops.org)
