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[–] Quicky@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Some of the comments on this and similar threads are wild. A dedicated major contributor to the fediverse as a whole, working almost entirely alone, who is solely responsible for bringing many of us to it that were looking to escape the social media capitalist hellscape via Pixelfed, creates another alternative with Loops and publishes some detail regarding how it works, and a bunch of keyboard-warrior nerds try to take it apart.

So many people contribute entirely fuck-all to fediverse platforms beyond the odd bit of content, myself included, and it always amazes me how quickly they want to tell him he's doing it wrong. So many opinions for one person producing so much, from so many people producing nothing.

You’ve expressed my feelings about it exactly. It’s very easy to criticise things that aren’t custom made to our individual preferences. But every time we do that we short circuit our capacity for reflection and empathy. I wonder if developers are so often a target of harshness and abuse because software users are used to instant gratification.

It’s a monumental job he’s doing and open sourcing it is basically a gift to the entire internet. The new features keep coming and with video being so expensive to host, it’s a very different undertaking to non-video social media.

[–] yessikg@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A lot of loops fanboys in the comments, but no thanks I don't need a For You feed. Peertube has it right

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Somewhere between being a hater and a fanboy, there’s basic respect. And it’s a one-person project for now, not a big company, so the words we choose should reflect that.

[–] yessikg@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He has a really bad reputation in the fediverse already, I'm not why people are going to bat for him still

Hold on: isn’t it a smear to say someone has a bad reputation and not supply a reason? Because you’re basically giving me your interpretation and no substance.

He is hard working. It’s difficult to build and communicate and do open source but all of those things are happening with regards to Loops. Nobody is perfect and a label like “bad reputation” is very subjective.

[–] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago

You knew w what? I am actually into this where the algorithm used sre published

[–] Microw@piefed.zip 1 points 4 days ago

My main problem with Loops is that they develop webui-first. Cool, they have a "for you" feed now. But only on webui. The app is still on it's release from start of November and doesn't have this hugely announced feature.

[–] PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world 8 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Yeah after making an algorithm for peertube I'm gonna say this is too complicated to implement. That graphic might be the the plan and it's something more simplistic.

Making a simple cosign vector for peertube was a pain

[–] korendian@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago (26 children)

"I failed at making something, therefore someone else could certainly not make something more complex than the thing I failed at"

K

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[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

latest app build showing invalid on my android

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