I had no idea what Loops was. Nice I guess, though short form content is just not something with which I want to engage.
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Would you say you were..... out of the loops? π π
No. No I would not, dad.
I don't mind short form, but I loathe vertical videos. But I guess these days those are basically 1 in the same.
Yeah, short form content isn't really my cup of tea either. I'm glad it exists though :)
I believe they have - announced a few weeks ago.
I think someone told me in another thread a while back discussing loops that at the time it was only like certain libraries and whatnot? I wasn't sure if that was still the case, or if that person was right, or what π€·ββοΈ
I'm not an especially technical person so I don't really remember details though π
No they were right - but now it's the whole server so people can stand up their own.
Nice!! Thank you for filling me in, I appreciate it βΊοΈ
Would be nice if they could work on their iOS app. Right now itβs functionality is so bad I dont even want to use it
Is this real? Seems like pretty strange data. Maybe it's displayed wrong?
It launched without being decentralized and without federation. Might've been a mistake.
But it can't be right that twenty thousand users stop like the same day? It's gotta be some error
Weird...
To be fair..
I did the thing where I signed up and got the app and promptly never used it
I don't particularly like short form content (at all) but I was hoping that there'd be some relevant connection between the platforms
Its nice to have choices.
Nice.
it'd be cool if their android app could get updated. and they fix the feed from just showing you the same string of videos constantly.
other than those two things im sure it will be awesome.
I have been doing some uploading there for a few mths. My biggest gripe is that they support 60 second videos, but anything over 15 seconds (for me) never finishes uploading.
I have seen the repeats too though.
I see a lot of these threads praising loops and i have never been able to use it effectively despite my efforts. =( and I have really wanted it to.
I am curious about the length restriction as well. I wonder if these are all things they're going to address and fix. but you'd think they'd have done all that before making announcements and whatnot.