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Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App (wedistribute.org)

submitted 7 months ago by deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

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The Fediverse might be getting their own mashups of Tiktok, YouTube, and Vine sooner than anyone thought, thanks to the work of one prolific dev spearheading an effort. The best part? He's helping other projects in the space, too.

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[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 39 points 7 months ago

Available Soon.

Dansup is well known for making grand announcements and delivering on them very late or never. I think it was more than two years ago that he announced federated groups for Pixelfed and still nothing. So I wouldn't get my hopes up yet.

[-] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 36 points 7 months ago

He is a bit bombastic, and has a habit of biting off more than he can chew sometimes. I think these side-projects are ultimately useful, though, and probably help fend off boredom or burnout. Maybe he gets better at coding and design through doing that, I dunno.

Regardless, he's continues to do a lot of great development work.

[-] ajsadauskas@aus.social 16 points 7 months ago

@deadsuperhero @nutomic I think the concept of a TikTok on the Fediverse is solid. And if short form videos help to get more people on the Fedi, and engaging with the Fedi, that's a good thing in my book.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

i still disagree that we should get as many people as possible on the Fediverse.
That's a good way for this place to become a hateful shit hole like so many other places on the internet.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 13 points 7 months ago

Aren't we still pretty far from being anywhere near that big?

[-] frogmint@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

Sup messenger too, but it's on hold due to EU regulatory challenges

And I agree, Dan is a great asset to fediverse development

[-] sibachian@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

i think he stopped working on groups because mastodon officially announced groups shortly after gis preview. not that they have delivered it yet (release target, q4 2023 - an no word for 2 years now).

[-] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

He's periodically shown updates on it. From talking to him, there are a number of challenges:

Being blocked by other features, like a UI refactor
Compatibility with other existing implementations (less of a problem now with the Group Federation FEP by @nutomic@lemmy.ml)
Wanting to include Private Groups
Bringing in moderation, assignment, and delegation tools for groups.
Dealing with unrelated issues pertaining to the day-to-day maintenance
Needing to break out new experiments in a branch to see how well an idea actually works

I think the biggest thing is that he probably does spread himself pretty thin at times, and is still learning how to rely on community pull requests and contributions. It can be a really hard thing to do, especially if you feel the need to provide the creative direction for how things ought to work.