@dansup @pixelfed I personally hate Stories. Can you disable them?

@dansup @pixelfed Looking great!
One question though, can you view the stories in f.ex a mastodon app? If yes, how does the story deletion feature work?

@dansup @pixelfed is that a good thing?

@dansup @pixelfed Well, erm, *cough* LDAP? ;-)

@dansup
Whats new with Sup?

@dansup @pixelfed 💪😤

@dansup Why don't you use F-droid, Aptoide or Aurora, where you combine some into one.

@dansup May I ask why you want to publish Pixelfed in the PlayStore? Is it about reach; more users?

@dansup Warning you now: If your app ever prompts for a rating, It's an automatic 1-star from me.

@dansup YASSSS

@dansup
also on f-droid? :)

@dansup

*Squeals of girlish glee*

@dansup
Please tell me you're talking about an app.
Please tell me you're talking about an app.
Please tell me you're talking about an app.
Please tell me you're talking about an app.
Please tell me you're talking about an app.
Please tell me you're talking about an app.

@dansup That's ok. I don't think many people need Loops in their browsers or on PC. However if you would make an app for PC I personally would be pleased with my windows tablet, but I don't feel like this PC App will find any popularity so it's very much effort without much reason

@dansup Reminds me of Instagram early days, they were exclusive to phones 👌

@dansup Why does web require that much more bandwidth than Android/iOS? Bots?

@dansup @loops Interesting.
i’m definitely planning on running my own instance (would even beta test if that’s an option), but I get the idea

@dansup @loops what is loops?

@dansup @loops What a fantastic idea! Best of both worlds!

@dansup @loops

Why not:
xxxxxx.tld/@yourUsername/lm6_hqMDAA
for the video, like a toot URL on Mastodon? Just curious. 🙂

@dansup @loops
You might want to edit your post. The Frenchman who has the @ loops address on Mastodon is probably really confused about this conversation. 😮

@dansup @loops wouldn't placing the /v/ part after the /@userName/ part make more sense? I think URLs should work like directories, so /User/Videos/VideoId, because the videos belong to the user

@dansup @loops

release early, release often 😉

@dansup @loops From an iPhone user - just get the Android version out and hopefully the iOS version will be ready soon. Would have loved to test Loops for iOS during Easter 🐣 !

@dansup Loopies? :brxi_hype:

@dansup TestFlight dropping soon?

@dansup
That'd be sorta cool if you could swap out which loops you wanted to have uploaded at any given time. Or specify some to be a chronological feed and some swappable?

@dansup I like it. If you were to go with a limit on the number of videos, it would be cool to gain more videos the older your account is. That way spam accounts can max post one video and older accounts are rewarded with more video slots.

If you do this though, I would want an option to automatically post the videos to a peertube account. I put a lot of effort into most of my videos so I wouldn't want them to disappear forever.

@dansup tbh I don't really like this idea. I feel like it would make adoption harder, as well as cause link rot/archival problems.

@dansup

> sharing the private keys for every local user

This sounds weird. Did you mean public keys?

@dansup I would prefer you didn't share keys. Http sigs should function as a remote authentication method. Sharing the keys makes it impossible to know that a message is from who it claims to be. That would mean enforcing blocks would require blocking everyone who shares that key.

@dansup OMG that is awesome. Too bad Gargon can't change usernames for handles on mastodon.

@loops

@dansup @loops very huge! Thanks for all the hard work!

@dansup @loops so, the immediately obvious way to do this is to make sure the username isn't in the actor ID or any object IDs. Then, you can set whatever you want as the `preferredUsername`, and changing it won't change the ID for the actor. I think the only problem is that some systems, like Mastodon, favour the Webfinger ID over the actor ID.

We're talking about this at the CG: https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-webfinger/issues/10

@dansup will you add moving an account? Like, let's say I uploaded few videos to loops using a pixelfed account, and I want to move all my videos, followers, etc, to a mastodon account.

@dansup @loops I'm so excited!

@dansup @loops

Hey Dan,

I was wondering if you're familiar with Casey Neistat's failed social network Beme.

I was on it at the time, and I always found the emphasis on authenticity hugely inspiring, and I shared far more on it than I ever did on instagram.

Not sure what your vision for loops is, but I'm sure it'll be awesome. I just wanted to leave this with you to see if you get anything out of it:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=kqJNQevSgP8

TikTok, Instagram reels, VK clips and other similar services work because they have everything anyone has ever posted on there. Millions of minutes of video are uploaded every minute, and all that feeds The Algorithm™, giving it the freedom to choose what it serves to you.

How are you going to address the problem of not having enough content in Loops due to its decentralized nature? So when someone starts a new server, where would the content come from? Would you just federate everything to all known network?

@dansup
As others said: publishing code different from what 's in the stores is problematic.

How about creating a library with the camera code and a really strong license? Add some features that will make it easily identifyable but can't be removed easily. That way copycats will either be identified quickly or have to put in enough effort to make copying unattractive.
If they violate the license there are a lot of organisation (FSF and others) that might help with taking legal actions.

@dansup Do you use Open Source libraries in the software you build? Often libraries that did not exist until someone published them.

It feels like somewhat against the very spirit of open protocols and collaboration to be considering publishing something like that closed source, pulling the ladder up as it were.

@dansup
Not open sourcing the whole code means no distribution through f-droid which would be really sad...