Stock photo for the Fediverse by Elena Rossini

CMLVI

That, and it's arguable primary purpose is to serve ads. "People similar to you clicked on these ads" type shit. And I get it to a point, platforms need to support themselves, and unless it's a paid app, that doesn't keep servers running. But it'd be nice to just get one every 10 minutes, and not every 10 seconds, and also to opt out of tracking for served ads instead of just random ones.

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Nah I’m not gonna dunk on her effort. I’m glad she made it. Don’t wanna be a downer to her.

But it just looks off to me.

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What is loops? Not seeing it on the play store

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Loops by Pixelfed

Loops, explore and share short videos on the fediverse. Available soon!

(loops.video)

fmstrat

Nope. Preference should not be made.

Kat

I disagree. Anybody that joins Loops right now is forced to the one instance. That's not federation. That's not an issue for you. Which is valid. But you don't get to police those who don't share your view.

fxomt

A federated tiktok alternative by the same guy who made Pixelfed. You can find the app on testflight.

It's not actually federated yet, not even open source. It's promising but Dan gets himself into a lot of controversy

It doesn't even have a web ui yet, but it's pretty much finished (atleast from dans mastodon teasers). We only have to wait a couple of weeks or a month for it (i estimate at least)

Don't get my negative comment wrong tho, i'm still excited for it, just disappointed so far from dan's handling of it.

Here's the website: https://loops.video/

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Nice work!

Obinice

Peertube, a voyeurism site for vids of people peering in through window curtains?

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After reading through this, it wouldn't surprise me if he turned out to be a Russian operative. In particular a Slovakian, no hate to Slavs but he just strikes me as one ya know?

It all just reads like a disgruntled federal operative letting the popularity get to their head.

fxomt

Does he have an ego? Definitely. But i'm not sure where you got russian operative from though. I'm not sure what russia would want to do with a buggy federated tiktok alternative/instagram app.

He also made pixelfed as i said, and it's open source so so far i haven't heard any backdoors inside it. Loops is a black box though.

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They've done federation on a few test posts, but it's definitely not there yet for normal users to use.

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Maybe. But it's probably more important to start with Lemmy than which app to use.

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It would seem I forgot to add the /s

In any case, I'm simply disappointed in his choices for not open sourcing software that would undoubtedly march on in terms of progress at light speed if fully FOSS.

I hope he learns to hone his ego, it's within and without. I just hope he comes to his senses and begins to work with devs who are desperate to get a peak at the closed source portions of his sofware. - By open sourcing any blackboxed software.

fxomt

Ohhhh ‍️Sorry. I agree, I hope he betters himself and make loops OSS. Currently he's pretty controversial but hopefully he turns around before it's too late.

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Honestly same! I was ready to delete my Pixelfeed account after having read all thatlbut I have high hopes that a turnaround comes. Here's to hoping

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Nah, it's a torrent client.

Ulrich

Nobody is "policing" anyone, I just don't think it's a valid argument.

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If you have constructive feedback, it seems like the photographer is open to it. It's not dunking on anyone to say "hey great work and cool idea, just so you know the image looks a little "off" on my screen, possibly due to my accessibility settings, which are blah blah blah... hope this helps, thanks for the great work!"

Kat

The irony