• DahGangalang@infosec.pub
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    14 hours ago

    Moderately certain this is already happening, as evidenced by loops showing up so often in my “all” tab. If I understand correctly (and for the love of all that is good, someone please correct me if I’m wrong), Loops is “hosted” via pixelfed.

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      13 hours ago

      I think you are just seeing people repost loops to Lemmy as Loops isn’t federated yet

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        12 hours ago

        Oh, is loops going to be run as a totally separate service?

        I’m not well educated on their project (nor on activity pub beyond a surface level understanding), but it was my understanding that is was going to be run as a sub-service of pixelfed. Don’t suppose you can point to any resources on that topic?

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          8 hours ago

          Loops is made by the same developer as Pixelfed but I have no idea what he intends for loops

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          12 hours ago

          It’s just in early development and hasn’t federated yet.

          It’s a separate thing from Pixelfed though. Just developed by the same guy.

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            12 hours ago

            Interesting to hear.

            I’m super pumped for the project, but am largely waiting to get properly set up with it until there’s a good app and I can on-board the friends and family all in one go. Really hoping to get them all off TikTok/YT Shorts/Reels/whatever corporate and nation run projects the kids are using these days.

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              12 hours ago

              Have you tried it? It’s in open beta. The app is already really good. I don’t think it’s ready for the friends and fam yet but it’s worth checking out.

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                9 hours ago

                I’m liking it but they need to work on navigation, mostly the scrolling animations. What makes Tiktok/IG Reels great imo was the quickish navigation from post to post.

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                  7 hours ago

                  it makes stuff super lowres rnow which isn’t great for viewing, it definitely needs some quality of life features but it seems to have a good core