Loops became Open Source!

[molecularcactus1324@lemmy.world]

Yeah this guy toying with selling is pretty insulting to anyone trying to help him out.

[remembertheapollo_@lemmy.world]

Agreed. I am downloading and occasionally checking out sole of the content on all of these apps like Loops or Pixelfed because I’d like to see them succeed. I’m not a content generator, but I hope having accounts on and viewing these services helps somewhat.

[bob_robertson_ix@discuss.tchncs.de]

I use it several times a day and have uploaded several videos since early January. I'm using the android app exclusively and there have been a couple of times that I went to use it and it wasn't working, but mostly it works great.

[kat@orbi.camp]

the code he published is unusable...

[dai@lemmy.world]

Yeah man what an arsehole giving away free things, spending time making free things for everyone to use for free.

If he wants to keep his code private until he's ready to release it - that's somewhat up to him. The repo is a step in the right direction, just give it some time.

Looking through the git repo the ignore is lopping off quite a number of files too (server) however I'm not sure how much of those are things like secrets, cache, other scripts and so forth.

[maggoty@lemmy.world]

Not even as a jumping off point?

[kat@orbi.camp]

not the backend, just boilerplate mostly

[maggoty@lemmy.world]

Yeah, I wonder if he's just taking his time or he's trying to keep some stuff as closed? I'll admit it's been about a year since I even looked at code but I feel it, calling me to abandon all life except the glowing screen again.

[croquette@sh.itjust.works]

The value of loops right now is the attention it is getting. Buyers are trying to swoop in early and bet that they can capitalize on the growth to get more money from other investors.

VC are gambling money as always

[jagged_circle@feddit.nl]

Not sure you can trust him at this point.

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

I'm not a content creator, but I recently went on vacation and put my best stuff up.

Without the algo, everything just gets lost to time. When I put a few things up, they faired well, but once they were out of the front seat, ( a day or so ) they were never seen again.

Where I post a couple nice things on bluesky, I get reverberations for days.

[gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world]

My fear with pixelfed and loops is the single dev seemingly more interested in money and clout than in building something long lasting for the community. I don't expect it to last long, but my friends really crave an app to exchange reels in and so we're hoping loops will be sufficient until something more stable comes around.

[flamingos@feddit.uk]

He stirs a lot of shit on his Mastodon account and gets into spats with other fedi devs. Just the other day he got into a one-sided spat with the GtS dev because the GtS dev implemented a feature to randomise the number of active users, which led to goblin.technology topping pixelfed.social in the FediDB charts. He then accused them of doing this to undermine him specifically, of wanting to 'de-legitimize Pixelfeds growth', despite it being explicitly a privacy feature.

[dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

New to open source? Good ideas don't really die in open source. If loops.video or Pixelfed are good ideas, open source will just do its thing because no one owns the idea once it goes open source

[spujb@lemmy.cafe]

lmaoooo thats so petty what

[thetimefarm@lemm.ee]

Good ideas absolutely do die all the time even in open source. If the original dev doesn't want to play nice, it's actually pretty difficult to create a new fork that everyone will agree on. Hopefully these federated apps have enough inertia to prevent the userbase from splintering when the original devs move on.

[nudenewt@lemm.ee]

This seems to be the main issues with his apps. Visibility is scarce beyond the original post, wherein even with followers the chances of someone seeing your post beyond that honeymoon phase dwindles.

The only exception are users with lots of followers. From what I've seen in my brief time using Pixelfed for example, it's usually accounts with at least a few hundred followers that see a highet retention of visibility.

[zeppo@sh.itjust.works]

The web ui has no option to even view the feed, as far as I can tell. Only individual videos and the settings.

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

Building an app like this for 100 people, sure. Making something handle smooth, affordable video delivery at scale. That's a spicy meatball.

The front-end is a mess for testing but doable. Then if you do live, you've got proxies and stream copies.

I host stuff at great scale, it's a different beast.

[casuallynoted@pawb.social]

My favourite part about this is that Pixelfed has been misreporting stats for years, and still is.