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✨Introducing Loops, a fediverse TikTok platform.

Explore and share short videos on the fediverse using your Pixelfed or Mastodon account.

Available Soon.

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Follow @loops for early access to the beta and updates.

#loops #pixelfed #pixelfedLoops

in reply to pixelfed

Very interesting! And how cool is it that I was the first follower!

@loops

in reply to pixelfed

Feature suggestion it there are tags or "themes" to follow:
a plus symbol behind the tag to follow it fast
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dansup
@deadsuperhero Do you have an iPhone?
in reply to pixelfed

that's great I guess, obv they're your projects so do as you like, but personally I'd love to see Pixelfed out of beta as a higher priority x
in reply to pixelfed

is the reason to prioritise this (instead of get pixelfed out of beta and into the app stores) because of the possibly impending ban of tiktok in the US?
in reply to pixelfed

sorry, but you already have missing features and slow development and bugs in pixelfed and you want to start yet another platform? I know a TikTok alternative would be great, but you either start a crowd funding and try to get money so you can pay active development or you should really reconsider doing that step.
in reply to Nafeon :verified_solarpunk:

@NafiTheBear Care to explain which missing features?

As for slow development, perhaps you missed the 120+ PRs I merged in the past month (+ 2 releases).

I'm eager to hear your response.

in reply to dansup

afraid I have to agree. The mobile apps are not released and admin isn’t working in them on the latest releases.

The gif handling is known to be buggy. Hashtags still don’t parse correctly in some instances.
Lack of reliable notifications or email notifications for some things so easy to miss reports etc.

And that’s just off the top of my head immediately without looking at my notes.

It’s difficult to follow your mass PR floods as they aren’t squash committed on GitHub with clear histories and literally end up with just “merge staging” but I can’t argue you do put in a lot of work. You do, however, need to start accepting contributions more readily and invest time in pipelines for validation IMO.

in reply to Terrence the Fox

@terrencefoxfur @NafiTheBear Now this is some valid criticism and I respect it.

Are you interested in helping triage some of these issues you highlighted via Discord? If so, lmk, this is the kind of feedback I need that is actionable, and if your willing, could really help me to test the solutions before shipping.

If not I understand, and will work on fixing those issues, thanks for the feedback!

in reply to dansup

@dansup @terrencefoxfur what happened to the "newsroom feature" it is just there, but no one get's a notification or it can't even be seen from the outside. Why can't I customize the about page more? why are stories not synchronised to mastodon, pleroma, *key? what is with relay support and profile backfilling?

I mean I could do a session in discord, they're are all open issues on github already, maybe it would just be better to put milestones and will do won't do labels.

in reply to dansup

@dansup @terrencefoxfur @NafiTheBear You keep saying the pixelfed mobile app will be out of beta, but somehow it never does. It’s always just around the corner. Also, what happened to the messenger “sup” that was coming soon last year?
I’m just concerned you lack focus and all this pressure is not good for you.
in reply to dansup

i think you should put the remark of @NafiTheBear into perspective, @dansup. Compared to the pace of development of e.g. Meta, the development of @pixelfed is slow. That does NOT mean you're doing anything wrong, though.
I'd rather take that comparison as a compliment: @NafiTheBear is putting you on the same Level as Multi-Billion cooperations.
in reply to dansup

@dansup @NafiTheBear I don't personally use Pixelfed, but I've heard the same sentiment echoed by multiple people that do, especially when it comes to long-standing unfixed bugs.
in reply to pixelfed

FlopTropica!1!1! I wonder now, how the community is going to be like without all the heavy TikTok censorship, which in a way defined the platform, federated 4 eva.
in reply to pixelfed

Not sure I understand. Is this for making videos or watching? Does it just pull the videos people post on, say, Mastodon, and put them in a vertical feed?
in reply to pixelfed

@dansup Are you aware about github.com/Goldfish-Social/Gol…? Although development seems to be stalled, maybe you can combine your efforts somehow. Good luck!

Edit: I read StuxOS, so probably @stux is behind it.

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in reply to pixelfed

yes! Posting short vertical content on PeerTube isn't ideal. I cannot wait for an option like this and hopefully ditch TikTok!
in reply to pixelfed

I never made a TT account but I’d sign up to this in a beat
in reply to pixelfed

I don't know if this is a good idea considering the damage TikTok has made and how stupid people became because of it
in reply to pixelfed

Very cool! I'm pretty sure with this the fedi nearly has all the platform types covered.
in reply to pixelfed

Ähm, doesn't the evil empire (M$) already use "loops" - I e. do we have an upcoming legal case here?
in reply to pixelfed

Not my cup of tea, but a great addition to our beautiful Fediverse. Boosted!

@loops

in reply to pixelfed

Really great to see. Looks like there is some interest on #tiktok for an alternative. Looking forward to more. 😎
in reply to pixelfed

I love the idea, but how will content discovery work?

In my experience with activitypub servers. Socializing as in actually talking to people is great, but content discovery can be kind of horrid

Sometimes we do want an algorithm or some means of discovering the popular content :nkoThink:

#fedi #loops #pixelfed

in reply to pixelfed

Ich bin gespannt, nutze #TikTok leider zu oft, eine freie alternative wäre großartig.

I'm curious, unfortunately I use #TikTok too often, a free alternative would be great.

in reply to pixelfed

always cool to hear new platforms in the fedi. How are you guys tackling the main problems of web video hosting - storage and bandwidth costs, especially during viral peaks?
in reply to pixelfed

@BrodieOnLinux would it be possible to follow non fediverse accounts? Without interactions of course.

A sort of bridge to other platforms. I guess I could code that myself too...

in reply to pixelfed

Looking forward to this space. How different from peertube?
in reply to pixelfed

when will the pixelfed app come onto play store? Also scheduling of posts is needed. Can't wait to try loops. I was too late for #Vine but just in time to try this. #BringBackVine
in reply to pixelfed

@SheDrivesMobility Ganz bald vlt. eine spannende (Fediverse-)Alternative zu #tiktok ..!?
V.a. mit Blick auf deine Herausforderung mit dem Algorithmus dort?
in reply to pixelfed

Hoping that it doesn't end up with mindless content with many people trying to be as funny as possible.