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For me the website is down, but it is on the archive: (https://web.archive.org/web/20250125101223/https://wedistrib...)

It feels very hard to find any sort of information on "Loops". Especially regarding their decentralization model.

Loops uses ActivityPub and the Fediverse as it's decentralization model (it's created by dansup, the dev of Pixelfed). The implementaion details, i.e. what's federated and how, are probably still fleshed out. It's the first project trying to bring the TikTok-style video feed to the Fediverse, so there's not much prior art.

It's not the website. There is no name resolution resolving to the domain wedistribute.org.

There were two hosts recorded in the DNS history:

auth.wedistribute.org 216.249.100.234

social.wedistribute.org 24.199.69.82

which no longer exist (i.e. unreachable, due to DNS of their domain failing now)

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