While I'm not interested in "short form" videos I had the same curiosity regarding the userbase and wanted to check myself.

The only way to look at the web view is to sign up, so I did. I completed E-Mail verification, then the account was disabled immediately with a pop up message to contact support. Not worth the effort.

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riidom 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I just tried exactly the same (at https://loops.video ), but I was able to watch without account, and registering afterwards also worked. Guess it's something on your side.

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GaryBluto 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I can too, now. I wonder if any changes were made or if it was just a problem on my side.

Checking loops.video now, these were the first 5 videos I saw, in order:

1. Left-Wing American Politics

2. Promotion of the Fediverse and Loops

3. Left-Wing American Politics

4. A Non-English Play

5. Left-Wing American Politics

6. Stop Motion Flipbook Thing

7. Advocation for Loops Itself and Decentralization

8. Loops Promo

9. Left-Wing American Politics

So out of the first 9 videos, 4 centre around American politics, 1 I couldn't understand, 3 were promotion for the service I was currently using and only one was interesting and understandable.

	▲	atomicfiredoll 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't have a Loops account, but check multiple sites for news and information, landing on the loops homepage several times. I haven't needed a login to see videos appear for some time. If it's anything like the rest of the Fediverse applications, it's meant to give you a full chronological feed of people you subscribe to. While several of these sites seem to have a simple trending page, one of the themes of the Fediverse seems to be getting away from overly predatory algorithms and leaning into letting people curate their own feeds and interactions again. It sounds a lot like a "be the change" situation. If you want to see other stuff, follow people you like instead of drinking from the hose. It's still a small site, so if you don't see the content you want, then make it or build the community there. These sites can also have basic interoperability. I don't know if the Loops UI supports subscribing to people in other Fedi networks yet, but I've seen people say Loops videos have started trickling onto Mastodon.