Loops - short form video with ActivityPub - is now open source!
Loops - short form video with ActivityPub - is now open source!
github.com
Release v1.0.0-alpha.1 · joinloops/loops-server
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Good to know it’s still moving forward. I thought the project died because I’ve never really heard anything since the initial promotion of it a couple of months back.
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Well, it is developed by a sole developer who also solo-develops Pixelfed. The guy spreads himself way too thin, so development moves slow.
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On Mastodon
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Again?
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I want to like Loops but I kinda do not like the lack of a recommendation system (I do understand why they don't tho). And also it needs more users to actually have content. I keep checking it every once in a while, but 90% of what I scroll through are nothing but nature shots with the other 10℅ being extreme political hot takes or just (bad) memes ripped straight from tiktok.
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Everything has to start somewhere.
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The "Explore" tab always has the same 12 videos. Look at it again 6 months later, same videos.
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Makes sense. It was in pre-alpha.
Now that it's in alpha, you'll have 13.
Once it hits beta, it'll skyrocket to an even 20.
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I remember when he announced that videos could be uploaded from the website next week...he said that in February. In August, he said it would be possible soon. There was an instance (loops.gay) that allowed you to do that, but it disappeared.
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Is it finally ACTUALLY AP enabled now? Been waiting on that.
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Answered my own question, supposedly it is.
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Last I heard, and this seems to be the case as of this moment as well, only a few accounts are federated for testing (as in, maybe just one?). Mine definitely is not. Of course, this could change at any moment since it's released as alpha.
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Question: can they get sued for putting TikTok-like in the description, or does that only apply when you're making money?
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They built it with PHP? Oof.
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So does this mean it's in a state where people can start hosting their own instances and begin federating yet?
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Seems like it, but nothing here yet aside from the official instance
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After announcing it ~7 times.
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Videos are hella compressed, dansup commented months ago saying hed update that soon increasing the limit, never did, my shit looks terrible
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Looking great! I'd love to add this to my fedi-toolkit
All 7 users will be pleased.
8 now that’s it’s foss
Every platform had 8 users at one point!
It actually reports about 27K monthly active users and is one of the more popular platforms on the fediverse.
And I still can only get 0 like, 0 comment shaky cam video of a screen capture of ultra zoomed in tiktoks or blasting shitty electronika music at 100dB clipping all to hell with 2005 era Microsoft visualizer videos.
Just like pixelfed, there is no way to discover anyone except the same 10-12 rotation of people they put in explore.
I come back every month or two and swipe through 5-10 to see if anything has changed, but it never has. In the case of loops, the same number of creators, some of which haven't posted a video for almost 8 months are "trending"? Maybe that is where the "active users" number comes from?
Fuck Insta. Garbage predatory app that depresses the fuck outta me. Why the fuck would I want an open source version of that? I don’t need social media that badly, I’ll survive just fine without it. Too many people perceive and live their lives through social media and doing it for the gram. Fuck that noise.
Pixelfed is more of the Instagram replacement.
Loops is TikTok focused.
No comment on the rest of your post, just FYI.
When it started, I liked it. It sucked after Meta bought it.
It was my experience when I tried it earlier this year. Around 5 people posting a lot and the other casual users just uploading tik tok videos.