loops is full of magic and ingenuity

[dansup@mastodon.social]

loops is full of magic and ingenuity

- urls are base64 encoded snowflake ids
- username changes (w/ federation)
- the mobile app handles transcoding
- media on S3, no local storage used
- 20,000 videos use less than 100GB
- you can run loops.video on a 8GB VPS for $40/month
- self hostable For You algo
- clever spam mitigation

y'all ready to host or join a loops server?

#loops

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@dansup is there an option for local storage or does it depend on AWS?

[dansup@mastodon.social]

@oblomov you could use local storage if you want, but its made for S3.

but really, it supports any laravel filesystem (including sftp lol)

[ujeenator@mastodon.social]

@dansup hope it will work on recently launched Hetzner S3 compatible storage

[minkiu@mastodon.social]

@dansup @oblomov would using minio locally work?

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@dansup @reiver this is really really cool!

Minimum requirements for a server?

[bh4tech@mastodon.social]

@dansup Yeah, ready to host a loops server.

Any timeline about when the code of loops(both server as well as app) will be open-sourced?

Also, any specific reason why you VPS with just 8GB RAM costs $40/month? I mean ovh provides much better spec-d dedicated servers at less than $40/month