Loops Joins the Fediverse
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I'm sure it still has a ways to go and adoption is key but this just sounds like what the internet honestly needs to fundamentally exist
I agree. For example there are some groups on fb I would like to be a part of but I hate the fact that I have to have a fb account
Fb does not work from my phone, it gets glitchier every year. They are too busy on their stupid metaverse and counting their money to fix those glitches apparently.
I just use https://m.facebook.com/ lol
That is the site it forwards yo, glitchy as hell from here.
Does that mean it has full portsbility and can transfer sll uploads to a new instances
Very nice. Welcome to the party.
So... another year then?
"Loops is a short video sharing platform."
Is it like some FOSS Tiktok alternative?
Precisely
No clue, I just followed a couple of links deep and found that description. I guess TikTok/ Vine.
This is great! I may get back into this. Does anyone know if there is a directory of instances?
https://fedidb.com/software/loops is the only one I found so far
Fantastic. Looks like there are a few that people have spun up. Thanks!
I have no idea but I doubt there any, federation just happened. Could be wrong tho
Also https://loops.fediverse.observer/list
For anyone else who was thinking of starting an instance, local storage is still a no-go right now
To be fair, you can simply selfhost MinIO.
Yeah, I wouldn't bother implementing local storage if I could easily roll a local S3 in the docker-compose.yaml.
Cloudflare provides 10 GB of free (forever) S3 compatible storage too.
Yeah but why would I make myself dependent on Cloudflare.
Yes
Good to know, thank you! I haven't touched S3 storage yet in my self hosting journey
It's an exciting world of file-to-object-to-file thunking. I'm surprised when it all works.
Can people even setup their own Loops instance yet?
I have Seen a post that it should be able by now, yeah.
Edit:
Installation-Guide: https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server?tab=readme-ov-file
Didnt host my own instance yet, but it looks like you could build your own.Would also make sense because its v1-beta release.
Looks like it
https://loops.fediverse.observer/list
https://fedidb.com/software/loops
Bröther may I have some lööps?
Like this?
And if anyone is on iOS and wants to give their beta app a spin:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/d7aPfftU
Any fellow kickstarters round these parts?? 👋
I donated sometime during the big fundraiser in January or so. It took a while but they did release server code a few months ago, and it's nice to see that it'll federate with other services soon.
Elaborate:))
We're here.
Are there apps for this yet?
There is one you have to sign up for on their site. I'm assuming it'll be GA shortly.
did they fix the feed and algorithm issues yet? or is it still doing the thing where it shows you the same feed every time you open the app.
edit: just reinstalled to check. it doesn't seem to have been updated since February and the feed issue still persists. that is a shame. I hope they can fix it.
Android app update is the next thing. They are active on Discord.
Loops doesn't have an algorithm, it just shows you the most recent videos uploaded to Loops. At least, in the For You tab anyways.
ahhh well. hopefully that changes to give a bit more usability. but thank you. good to know.