Loops became Open Source!

[chicosuave@lemmy.world]

It is a time of predatory billionaires grabbing all forms of media. It would not surprise me if he did get offers. It would also be very unprofessional to broadcast the valuation of Loops and Pixelfed while turning down the offer. It would be like recording and showing someone asking for a date and getting rejected.

[adameatsass@lemmy.world]

I could give you like $20?

[xanthobilly@lemmy.world]

Is there no iPhone app?

[fxomt@lemm.ee]

Where's the code? There's only 9 commits to the backend and its only scaffold code. There's not even activitypub?

Same with the app. Was this just a publicity stunt?

[fxomt@lemm.ee]

Thank you for your generous offer, AdamEatsAss

[cmlvi@lemmy.world]

The Loops app certainly feels like it. Not to diminish a solo dev doing something on his own, but it just seems like a standard video player with like, comment, follow. Search feature is only by user; when you type a comment, it doesn't wrap the text, it just moves horizontally until you post it. I think the feed is literally just a chronological list of every video posted, and for some reason, most of the videos I see on it are just like...atmospheric videos. Still camera, nature background, rain in someone's backyard. People love the concept, but I don't see how it's anywhere near ready to compete for users like other options are right now.

[jqubed@lemmy.world]

If that quote is what was sent to him to entice him to sell that sounds strongly like a scam

[fxomt@lemm.ee]

The web UI has been teased for so long, too. I'm losing trust with dan. I mean im glad he found success with pixelfed, and i wouldn't even have a problem with how long it takes loops; but he's just dishonest. If he was more honest, transparent and open sourced the code early on i would've had no problem. But this? what is this?

[ste41th@lemmy.ml]

Appears to be in TestFlight

[cmlvi@lemmy.world]

I'm not a big Fediverse proponent, like...the concept is good, if not still a little young (activity pub isn't ironed out across mediums and is still a bit jank in my opinion) but it seems a bit like a cash grab to be the savior dev making all the X-equivalent of Fediverse, and just hopefully something sticks. With PixelFed blowing up, feel like Loops is gonna take a back seat for quite a while.

[ze_rosie_ro@lemmy.cafe]

Pardon my ignorance, I am new to the fediverse and have no idea what I’m doing.
But, when I signed up for loops on the website, I had to wait 3 days for them to send me a link to download a test-flight app for loops. I cannot recall if TestFlight is standard on iPhone or if I downloaded it previously.

[jimmycakes@lemmy.world]

Pretty sure those are ai linked in bots that send that message to every single email they can scrape off the open web lmao.

[mosiacmango@lemm.ee]

You should haggle a bit mate. I think a few things are on the table here.

[hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

He open sourced the "code". If you actually look in detail, there's no actual working code.

He also disabled issues on GitHub, so there's no way to report bugs (and thus discuss his code).

While he could be getting offers, everything about it just feels like a scam.

[stevo887@lemmings.world]

Test flight is opt in if I remember correctly and allows you to download beta versions of apps. So I would assume you signed up or activated it or whatever for an app.

[spujb@lemmy.cafe]

it might be useless gossip but for some reason a lot of fedi has various problems with this guy. for various reasons… he just has like … off vibes?

i guess similar to how lemmy devs are marxist lenninists—at least making it open source means projects can be forked if the founders go off the deep end.

[noodlejetski@lemm.ee]

not just "off vibes", he posts a bunch of shit that people call him out on, and then deletes it

[molecularcactus1324@lemmy.world]

That’s funny because it’s not difficult at all to build an app like this.

[cris_color@lemmy.world]

Could you elaborate? I'm not a developer but the repo does appear to be populated. Someone in the Mastodon replies said he might have forgotten to push some commits, are y'all alluding to the same thing?

I don't have the requisite competency to see what you're saying so I'd love more info on what you mean and why you think that

[gladaed@feddit.org]

Not even a surprise open sourcing...

Nvidia did it better