I am considering a Bluesky approach to @loops, but in ActivityPub!

dansup

What I mean is that it will be vital to auth, discovery and the algorithmic FYP, for Loops to provide a centralized service and make it easy for users, while also allowing admins to opt-out and limit their Loops instance accordingly.

We can have the best of both worlds, and who knows, we may even support native AtProto eventually!

The goal is to empower short form video sharing, wherever possible!

Are you with us?

#loops

Scott Williams 🐧

@dansup @loops What does this mean for people that might want to run their own loops server? What parts/services are necessarily centralized?

dansup

@vwbusguy @loops Still working out the details, though I can say the goal of the centralized Loop Service will be to seed content for new Loops servers, and allow admins to enable the ability to exchange data with the Service so as to improve FYP recommendations, etc.

Matthias

@dansup
Centralised authentication. So, a server that controls all users and instances that are responsible for operation?

dansup

@feb no not centralized auth, but centralized auth features like being able to tell which server you are on.

You would login to your server directly, the centralized features I mentioned would only be an optional layer between your server and the fedi, not you and your own server!

I should have made that more clear.

abben

@dansup @loops can an algo be distributed the way a federated block list can be distributed?