There’s a lot of cool stuff in the pipeline for the open source federated alternative to Tiktok and Vine, including a Web UI and a boatload of new features. Let’s dive in, and see what’s coming in the next release.
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This guy is a fucking software machine.
I liked the idea of loops, still have it on my phone, but there wasn’t enough content to make it worth checking
Wonder if signing up will work. That’s the feature I am hoping for. Tried multiple times over many months, hasn’t worked yet. Would love to be excited but sign up not working leaves me kinda apathetic.
not sure why they keep callin it open source.
how bout you start throwin that around after you make the code available
A significant portion of the code is available, I think it’s just a matter of getting the latest code pushed out to public release status. Judging by the server repo, seems like a lot of development is happening out in the open.
It launched wayyyy too early and basically killed the project.
I haven’t even think about loops since that disaster launch. Not even a single though.
Is it actually federating yet?
Yes. You can read more about it in the article.
You can selfhost it soon™ 😁
Again based on PHP and I think the documentation will be incomplete and outdated, like it is for Pixelfed. For Pixelfed some commands are only mentioned in Github issues, S3 was a pain. He is working on too many projects. Any news on the Sup-messenger? 😅
What’s up with ActivityPub projects being beholden to PHP. Not even pitting languages against each other, just interesting that most new projects nowadays will choose something like Typescript + React but fediverse tends to favor PHP.
I don’t think Fediverse tends to favor PHP. Mastodon is written in Ruby, GoToSocial is Go, *key forks are Typescript for example. Pixelfed is the only one which comes in my mind for PHP.
PHP is not beginnerfriendly to setup imo. Different configuration files for different settings…
Im thinking of the fork the devs of the programming.dev instance were trying to build, it was PHP. Can’t remember the name, then this and Pixelfed. I don’t know if favoritism is the right word but I do feel like 3 projects is a lot for the current ecosystem lol.
Certainly an interesting decision.
The bigger problem of Pixelfed seems the codebase and documentation. Dan is mostly alone while developing it. No public betas, just Screenshots with intresting features, which will come soon™
Then again, the documentation. I tried spinning up Pixelfed on ubuntu server with the docs provided. Laravel did not start, cryptical error message. A module was disabled in the default PHP.ini. No mention in the docs, just which PHP modules are needed. I found the solution in a Github issue
Music and analytics are huge news. Those, alone, bring Loops much closer to being a viable platform for users who take content creation/reach seriously.
I would kill time with this for a little while but over the last few months the audio lag has made it unusable in my opinion. After opening and pressing play it would take a few seconds for it to start playing, and then after swiping to the next one the audio from the previous one would keep playing for a few seconds. I could swipe through like 4 or 5 videos until the audio would catch up. Also, the hashtags are nice but at the moment they function where I have to select one, watch it, swipe back to the hashtag page, select another one, and repeat. I want to just be able to scroll through hashtags or someone’s account instead of clicking on individual videos (like you used to be able to). My following page gets stuck after a few videos where I can’t scroll anymore too. I’ll reopen it when the update drops, but there’s definitely issues to iron out.
Not to be a dick, but… why do I care? This is a Meta product.I was thinking of threads. My bad.
No, it’s from the pixelfed guy?
It’s not owned or operated by meta as far as I know? Where did you see that
Yep I was crossing some wires
It happens, maybe you were thinking about vine, I heard someone rich saying they wanted to bring that back
Oh man, I do remember vine. That was actually a kinda fun era, because that was the OG. Before it got monetized out the ass.
God, I miss the pre-enshitification era
Oh it’s going to be far worse, I just checked who it was. Musk said he’s going to bring Vine’s archive into “Grok Imagine.”.
So AI vine, because Twitter bought vine in 2012, so they must own the rights https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/elon-musk-says-hes-bringing-back-vines-archive/
Hahahahahahaha fml 🙃
My biggest gripe is that if I try to post anything over 15 seconds it errors out every time. 15 seconds is juts not enough time to capture the silliness of the morning feeding time here, but I post anyway.
I would imagine that this is getting addressed in the update as well.
Didn’t Vine used to limit it at 7 seconds? Find your inner speedrun.
Looks like he is putting features into Loops that were originally planned for Pixelfed, but didnt work to implement there (Pixelfed is said to have a very messy codebase, dansup recently said that for weeks he had a broken CI on github).
Sounds nice
