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dansup
Loops will launch with a chronological only feed, then a Followers feed and finally the For You feed. Before we can serve personalized feeds, we need to build and label the video and topic graphs. We will be A/B testing the For You page during the next few weeks. You will be able to tell because there will a new For You header menu! 
Frederico Machuca
@dansup are we going to be able to completely opt out of the For You feed? meaning, we don’t even see a For You feed and all tracking, learning, etc is disabled for our account?
dansup
✨Hello Notification Feed!
We just finished adding the notification feature to Loops, along with Push Notification and filtering. We hope you're ready 🚀 
dansup
✨ Improved Loops Share menu Now with a new "Not Interested" button to help train the For You feed along with Bookmark and Report features!   
Liaizon Wakest
@dansup you might need to add a warning about the fact that you are using the Bookmark feature as a signal for training anything. There have been lots of articles mentioning how the bookmark and like features "on the fediverse" are private and dont do any training of algorithms. Regardless if thats true it is expected by many
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Григорий Клюшников
fyi the video doesn't load in chromium browsers, and the proper mime type for .mov is "video/quicktime" edit: doesn't work in Safari either
dansup
✨ Iconic Onboarding With Loops, you will be able to take advantage of your Mastodon (or Pixelfed) account to find friends based on accounts you're already following! Discovery is crucial, and we're making it even easier ⚡️ 
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kaiserkiwi :kiwibird:
@dansup As this made the on boarding of Threads made so good, don't forget the "Follow if they join" button there. If I sign up as the first person and see 200 Mastodon "friends" that aren't there yet, I want to "follow" them. I don't want 200 notifications with »Person joined, follow?«. They should be followed by joining already, if I chose so. So please "copy the homework" completely or even improve it a bit. 
Nitrovenom
@dansup whatever you guys do, make it convenient and appealing to a broad audience but don't make it addictive.
dansup
An important thing to clarify on the newly formed Mastodon 501(c)(3) entity: it's not here to make or influence product decisions. It has no legal ability to enforce any such changes. Primary operations will remain led by the Germany-based Mastodon gGmbH, and this won’t change. The focus of the U.S entity is to provide another vehicle for donations and other forms of support. The Board has no legal "control" beyond this.
dansup
I've seen people mention that the Loops push notifications are dark patterns, and that is not my intention at all I'm not encrypting the notifications and they can be collected by various parties (NSA, Apple, Google) so I didn't want to include any more metadata than I needed to Hope you understand! 
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Jared White
@dansup This seems *totally fine* for an MVP. Maybe some version down the road can improve on it… 
dansup
People out here saying anything for clout Say what you want, my projects speak for themselves 🚀
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Ultrasquid 💀
@dansup why is the highlighted tab smaller than the non-highlighted ones? In most UIs I've seen, it's the other way around.
dansup
Loop video urls will be super short! ex: loops.video/v/5jM_jMRGuYbLc Notice no username? That's because we plan to support username changes ✨
dansup
I've seen people mention that the Loops push notifications are dark patterns, and that is not my intention at all I'm not encrypting the notifications and they can be collected by various parties (NSA, Apple, Google) so I didn't want to include any more metadata than I needed to Hope you understand!
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Jared White
@dansup This seems *totally fine* for an MVP. Maybe some version down the road can improve on it…
dansup
Loops is open source, and as such, I think it's a bit naive to spread rumors about data privacy when I haven't even pushed all the code yet. I'm not some start up, I don't give a heck about your data, I just like building cool things for cool people That being said, I know I don't always make the right decisions, and look forward to community feedback so we can find the right solutions, together! I'm not a regular mom, I'm a cool mom 😎
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Menta :stardewchicken: 💬💌
@dansup you mentioned earlier it has an algorithm, would it make it addictive? I’m a little bit worried about that as I’m running away of that type of apps  
Danie van der Merwe
@dansup data and code are two very different things. I don't think any open source project posts their user data with their source code. Data is normally stored on a server or end user device, and the source code merely powers the interface. 
Norbi Peti
dansup
Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated using #ActivityPub We're really excited to share this sneak peek that showcases the new onboarding flow and discovery features (Connect Mastodon) and look forward to the upcoming beta release! Are you ready for #Loops ?
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dansup
✨ Iconic Onboarding With Loops, you will be able to take advantage of your Mastodon (or Pixelfed) account to find friends based on accounts you're already following! Discovery is crucial, and we're making it even easier ⚡️
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kaiserkiwi :kiwibird:
@dansup As this made the on boarding of Threads made so good, don't forget the "Follow if they join" button there. If I sign up as the first person and see 200 Mastodon "friends" that aren't there yet, I want to "follow" them. I don't want 200 notifications with »Person joined, follow?«. They should be followed by joining already, if I chose so. So please "copy the homework" completely or even improve it a bit.
Nitrovenom
@dansup whatever you guys do, make it convenient and appealing to a broad audience but don't make it addictive.
dansup
Loops has a simple For You algorithm to show relevant interests and topics, it will get better over time like my Autospam algorithm! The way it works is pretty clever, using a combination of on-device machine learning and nlp we use plenty of “signals” to classify content and associate it accordingly. This is more than just short videos, helping people discover relevant content is crucial to our mission and I look forward to building the best fediverse For You feed 😎  
flaeky pancako
@dansup is it like a semantic database that links to specific posts? Would love to hear more details , sounds neato
dansup
Loops onboarding screens are done!   
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Ultrasquid 💀
@dansup why is the highlighted tab smaller than the non-highlighted ones? In most UIs I've seen, it's the other way around. |
@pixelfed 88 more updates to go before version 1.0.0 🤪
Thank you for your work and anyone who contributes, will upgrade today.
@pixelfed What happened to the update doc ? 😅
https://docs.pixelfed.org/running-pixelfed/administration.html
@pixelfed You might want to consider using Webtorrent or IPFS as your CDN since if something goes viral it won't result in overloading the server.