With all the backlash TikTok USDS has been experiencing this week I expected at least some mentions of Loops, but I haven’t seen nor heard anything so far. Even tech news outlets that regulary mentions Fediverse have been silent on Loops.
Was your experience different?
As a Fediverse user, I have barely heard of Loops (I mean no offence).
I have only loosely heard about loops before but never looked into it until I saw this post
First I search for it on Google Play. Then on f droid. No luck
Then on Qwant (because I don’t use Google).
Only when I searched for loops fediverse did I find it
When it yet isn’t available, in the places people will look for it, I doubt that the media will start mentioning it. And this is probably a good thing.
Most users are lazy and wouldn’t consider it an option if they had to download an APK, disable security for them and then signup for a manual approval
It’s better that it gets served when it’s ready, instead of having a reputation of it being complicated to install and sing up to
I haven’t seen loops mentioned in the media, but I have seen a few mentions on reddit. I have seen UpScrolled mentioned in an article.
Same. Can’t say I’m surprised that people are flocking to another for-profit platform.
It looks like this is a 3rd business attempt by the developer https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?id=58651435684.
Never heard of it, but if it’s a TikTok-like I’m not interested anyway.
It’s not really a funding issue. Look at Mastodon when Twitter was bought, Eugen Rochko was able to capitalize on that.
I think the issue is primarily with main maintainer Dan (dansup) being self-described dreamer who jumps from project to project without being able to finish anything. Loops is even partially funded by EU through the NLnet grant, so funding is not an issue. He’s also seemingly hostile to community contributions and already alienated large spectrum of Fediverse developer community. So much so that there is even open letter asking for him to temporarily step down.
While Loops beta state was defintely a big part of it, it’s still was strange to me that it was not mentioned at all on corporate media this time, when in the past they did highlight it.
Lol… dansup isn’t perfect, but it’s always funny when I see these biased af accounts trying to bury him over the most petty shit.
Not sure what you mean by “biased af accounts” as I think this is like 2nd time ever I posted anything about Loops.
And I offered no opinion over “the most petty shit” apart from mentioning that it exists. Is it suppose to be a secret?
