Loops is now part of the Fediverse! (blog.joinloops.org)
from Cris_Color@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 08:49
https://lemmy.world/post/37374369

Anyone know if they’ve actually open sourced everything yet? I haven’t kept up with things and I know that was an issue for a while

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ekZepp@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 09:14 next collapse

Nice.

wit@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 09:21 next collapse

I had no idea what Loops was. Nice I guess, though short form content is just not something with which I want to engage.

Cris_Color@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 10:53 next collapse

Yeah, short form content isn’t really my cup of tea either. I’m glad it exists though :)

artyom@piefed.social on 15 Oct 11:46 next collapse

I don’t mind short form, but I loathe vertical videos. But I guess these days those are basically 1 in the same.

dublet@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 12:36 collapse

Would you say you were… out of the loops? 🌞 😎

ripcord@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 13:23 collapse

No. No I would not, dad.

KeenFlame@feddit.nu on 15 Oct 09:53 next collapse

<img alt="oof owie ow" src="https://feddit.nu/pictrs/image/6bae3781-6619-4f67-86d5-4e81fbfa7e56.png">

Is this real? Seems like pretty strange data. Maybe it’s displayed wrong?

troed@fedia.io on 15 Oct 10:25 next collapse

It launched without being decentralized and without federation. Might've been a mistake.

KeenFlame@feddit.nu on 16 Oct 04:30 collapse

But it can’t be right that twenty thousand users stop like the same day? It’s gotta be some error

Cris_Color@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 10:56 next collapse

Weird…

tpyo@lemmy.world on 16 Oct 02:58 next collapse

To be fair…

I did the thing where I signed up and got the app and promptly never used it

I don’t particularly like short form content (at all) but I was hoping that there’d be some relevant connection between the platforms

mrdown@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 18:29 collapse

The app look like an alpha or less. Barely usable

KeenFlame@feddit.nu on 21 Oct 00:16 collapse

Still 31k don’t try something if that is true

mrdown@lemmy.world on 21 Oct 00:26 collapse

You can’t know how good an app is without trying it first. After trying it , I found out that is it at best an alpha and I stopped using it

KeenFlame@feddit.nu on 21 Oct 08:31 collapse

No, it has actually never happened that thirty one thousand users tries an app for 3 months then stopped on the same day. You might reevaluate

mrdown@lemmy.world on 21 Oct 13:18 collapse

This app is the worse app I ever tried . Like I said it is at best an alpha. Why would anybody use it when I can’t search by keyword and the app only suggest 3 creators?

KeenFlame@feddit.nu on 21 Oct 17:10 collapse

That also does not explain this graph

mrdown@lemmy.world on 21 Oct 17:11 collapse

Why? If the app is so terrible naturally people stop using it

KeenFlame@feddit.nu on 21 Oct 18:17 collapse

It says 31 thousand people used it consistently for three months, then stopped on the same day

troed@fedia.io on 15 Oct 09:56 next collapse

I believe they have - announced a few weeks ago.

https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server

Cris_Color@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 10:52 collapse

I think someone told me in another thread a while back discussing loops that at the time it was only like certain libraries and whatnot? I wasn’t sure if that was still the case, or if that person was right, or what 🤷‍♂️

I’m not an especially technical person so I don’t really remember details though 😅

troed@fedia.io on 15 Oct 11:15 collapse

No they were right - but now it's the whole server so people can stand up their own.

Cris_Color@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 12:31 collapse

Nice!! Thank you for filling me in, I appreciate it ☺️

arox@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz on 15 Oct 10:05 next collapse

Its nice to have choices.

Nima@leminal.space on 15 Oct 14:23 next collapse

it’d be cool if their android app could get updated. and they fix the feed from just showing you the same string of videos constantly.

other than those two things im sure it will be awesome.

Bo7a@lemmy.ca on 15 Oct 14:35 next collapse

I have been doing some uploading there for a few mths. My biggest gripe is that they support 60 second videos, but anything over 15 seconds (for me) never finishes uploading.

I have seen the repeats too though.

Nima@leminal.space on 15 Oct 14:40 collapse

I see a lot of these threads praising loops and i have never been able to use it effectively despite my efforts. =( and I have really wanted it to.

I am curious about the length restriction as well. I wonder if these are all things they’re going to address and fix. but you’d think they’d have done all that before making announcements and whatnot.

mrdown@lemmy.world on 20 Oct 18:27 collapse

Or implementing the fundamental feature of searching videos by keywords and hashtags

Nindelofocho@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 14:51 collapse

Would be nice if they could work on their iOS app. Right now it’s functionality is so bad I dont even want to use it