I just saw this post from @dansup announcing self-hosting to be available for Loops “very soon”.
If you haven’t heard about Loops before: Loops is a short-form video platform designed for the decentralized Fediverse, where users share videos like TikTok.
Compared to TikTok, Loops offers a few notable advantages: it’s decentralized, so no single company controls the entire platform or its content. Users and communities can (soon) host their own servers and set their own moderation policies. Federation within the Fediverse is not YET there but I’m very sure it will come soon as well..
I also have an account on Loops since quite early (search “hikingdude”), but I do not (yet) post a lot of videos there. – I’m really considering the self-hosting. Maybe as soon as it’s available – or I wait until YunoHost has it in its app garden.
@blog I'll believe it when I see it released & open source — dan has said timeframes and announced a lot of things, but delivered them late or never, so ♀️
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Totally fair point! I’m just happy that Loops even exists and that someone is motivated enough to work on it. If it really gets released, that’s awesome – if not, it’s a shame, but it won’t ruin my day. So I’ll just stay positive about it.
I guess you did not appreciate and publish my comment. Shame. It’s quite factual if you look back at all the posts
Thanks a lot for taking the time to share your thoughts.
Since this is a one‑person project, criticism of the project naturally ends up being directed at the person themselves. That can feel quite personal, so I decided not to publish the comment as‑is.
I absolutely welcome critical discussion of the product’s history and its release timing — if you’d like to rephrase the comment to focus on the product track record itself, without singling out the creator in that way, I’d be glad to publish it.