RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116725485132583954 it's actually insane how fast Loops grew, and continues to grow!

my brothers like "bring the Analogue3d and goldeneye" to our weekly sunday dinner with the parents i arrived with it and 3 mint OG controllers and rumble packs. i won the first match, then my 16 year old niece owned us, it was her first time playing and I was so embarassed. but i did win the […]

AI used to mean Adobe Illustrator. Hallucinate used to require drugs. Token used to get you on the subway. Prompt used to mean being on time. Slop used to mean soylent. Cloud used to mean rain was coming. Where did we lose our way?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116703149440619745 you guys made my mom so happy when she read those comments, thank you fam! The fediverse is magic, and can have a way bigger impact that some people realize ✨

Starter Kits have been used over 760 times on loops.video! What started out as my idea for improved onboarding was later polished by @Mastodon and together we shipped a solid FEP to improve onboarding and discovery for all ✨ Progress through collaboration is the keystone of the open social web […]

I've met and conversed with many fediverse developers over the years, but I can't help but fan girl over @mbajur coming back. We literally started https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks together. A forum to connect fedi devs before anyone cared about that, and then we transitioned it to a trusted […]

I'm trying to convince @mbajur to revive his Prismo project from 2018, a federated hacker news/lobsters platform (perhaps even reddit) that was way before it's time. Back in 2018, a new cohort of ActivityPub projects emerged, including @pixelfed, but Prismo […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

this was my AI growing up #ai #bonzaibuddy

UI is more important than a flashy backend Make it pretty enough to attract normal people, they don't care it's built with Rust signed, your friendly neighborhood php dev

OMG, I can't believe @mbajur is back on the fediverse and developing his new @pppond project. Back in 2018 we started a discourse forum together to connect ActivityPub developers. That forum would later become https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks He is the real deal, a talented designer who […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/101638320784531203 ever since I went from 0 followers to thousands of followers back in 2018 after I released Pixelfed, I've used my following to bring awareness to new and up and coming projects. I remember chatting with Anfora and Fontina devs (both photo […]

periodic reminder to myself of how far this has come. 8 years, almost daily, building open fediverse platforms and tools that belong to everyone. i said no to 7-figure acquisition offers. i went viral because Meta couldn't ignore it. defining chapters, both. still chasing a better open social […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116725485132583954 Loops went from 1 user to 26k users in only a couple months, and at the same time, Pixelfed went from 250k users to over 400k users. Not to mention the Kickstarter and Pixelfed app store release in Jan 2025. I don't know how I did it, I […]

You know what's wild? I announced Loops in Oct 2024 with only a signup form. 1,975 people signed up to join in the first 24 hours! Nov 1, 2024 we launched. 31 Loops were uploaded on the first day. March 2025: 26,596 accounts and 14,721 videos uploaded. We grew fast, before the code was […]

Loops Playlists are coming to the mobile app! They are already available on the web, and you can even re-order them to make your most recent appear first on your profile. Shipping Soon. #loops #loopsplaylists

Shutter could perhaps become what Solo was meant to be, a simple, single user photo sharing platform that is as easy to install as WordPress. But first, I will focus on improving Pixelfed (federation, webUI + mobile apps) and make :pixelfed: more stable and solid! This is going to be a wild […]

To improve Pixelfed federation, I've been building a reusable Laravel Package (laravel-activitypub). Before I integrate it into Pixelfed, I need to test it and catch production bugs, so I created a single user photo sharing app as a demo It's called Shutter […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Does anyone remember Coke Music? It was an online game like Habbo Hotel, and I was obsessed with it around 2004, the same year Shark Tale came out (I only remember that because they had so many Shark Tale branded furniture) That summer was full of MSN Messenger, Coke Music and Kanye West's […]

kids will never know the thrill of free aol hours on a mystery cd-rom. or columbia house: 10 CDs for a penny (and a lifetime of guilt). or paying 25¢ to send "hey". now? free wifi, unlimited movies, unlimited music, unlimited texts. somehow the magic feels normal.

When I was in elementary school, in the 90's, we used BBS and would go to the computer lab a few times a week to check our inboxes and play games. Cross Country Canada and Sim Tower were my favourites, I wanted a iMac so badly. That's when I first seen USB, and it's pretty wild how far that […]

I used to be an autobody technician, fixing vehicles after accidents and stuff. I was an aimless kid that got kicked out of high school, and luckily my dad apprenticed me in his trade, but I always dreamed of writing code for a living. Then in 2018, I started Pixelfed, my first full stack open […]

Interviewing for a new job tomorrow, I haven’t had to do a job interview since 2013! Don’t worry though, the job is fediverse related and I’ll still be working on Pixelfed and Loops daily. Fingers crossed 🤞

Kommt wegen der Freiheit… und bleibt auch wegen der Freiheit.

I am working on my Laravel-Activitypub package, it will replace federation support in Pixelfed once all tests are passing! To demonstrate and test it before we use it in Pixelfed, a small and simple single user photo sharing server will be published and I'll boost the first photo here […]

Help Centers and user focused documentation is rare on the fediverse. I couldn't find an existing solution that met my needs, so I'm building one for Loops. More details soon! #loops #support #helpcenter

Make platforms easy for everyone, and document them with simple knowledge bases or help centers. It may be a boring topic, but this is how we go mainstream by making your platforms easy to navigate and understand. The new Loops Support site will be […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

✨ Loops Playlist demo You gotta see this ⬇️ #loops #playlists #comingsoon

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116714851562765755 So this will be hosted on support.joinloops.org but will use a clever way of linking to Support Tickets and your own profile avatar in the header using two query parameters, server & username on the first visit (assuming this is linked from […]

Make platforms easy for everyone, and document them with simple knowledge bases or help centers. It may be a boring topic, but this is how we go mainstream by making your platforms easy to navigate and understand. The new Loops Support site will be […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Help Centers and user focused documentation is rare on the fediverse. I couldn't find an existing solution that met my needs, so I'm building one for Loops. More details soon! #loops #support #helpcenter

✨ Loops Playlist demo You gotta see this ⬇️ #loops #playlists #comingsoon

ICYMI here is the excerpt from a powerful talk by @anneapplebaum I attended three weeks ago. "We can fight back, not just by talking but by building. We can begin to collaborate on the construction of alternative technologies that would suit not just Europe but the entire democratic world. So […]

Here is a demo of Loops Playlists, with the full playlist and the current video highlighted! https://loops.video/v/fyclivXdO1?playlist_id=6

#pppapp a social bookmarking app from the dev of prismo, looks very promising!!

Loops Playlists are powerful, allowing you to guide viewers across a carefully curated collection of your videos! Shipping soon to our mobile apps! #loops #loopsplaylists #playlists

Playlists are coming to the Loops mobile app ✨ Stay tuned! #loops #playlists

Than what?

YSK: Pixelfed and Loops support embeds on pretty much any website that supports HTML! Pixelfed: https://dansup.github.io/pixelfed-embed/ Loops: https://dansup.github.io/loops-embed-demo/

Currently refactoring some Pixelfed endpoints, reblogs/shared posts will now be shown by default in your home feed, but you will be able to hide them in Settings! #pixelfed

The Loops Video Resource is much different than Pixelfed or Mastodon! https://joinloops.org/developers/endpoints/video #loops #loopsapi

The new Pixelfed app Camera will support new filters + AR filters for both photos and videos, and include a better editing experience. It's pretty insane actually, we're planning to support 3rd party filters via the Filter Marketplace. Stay tuned, and if you want early access, subscribe to our […]

Loops is now using a API code generator library that reads routes and controllers and builds the openapi v3 definition. It's pretty genius, and will help make API doc updates basically frictionless. https://joinloops.org/developers

The new Pixelfed app Camera will support new filters + AR filters for both photos and videos, and include a better editing experience. It's pretty insane actually, we're planning to support 3rd party filters via the Filter Marketplace. Stay tuned, and if you want early access, subscribe to our […]

the new Pixelfed mobile app is so slick, it solves every bug report, and is so much more prettier and faster. Kickstarter backers and patreons will get early access later this month ❤️ #pixelfed

people want familiarity. inspiration doesn't mean dumbing anything down. it means taking what already works, ripping out the toxic stuff: ads, dark patterns, the whole extraction machine, and rebuilding it around privacy and safety. a safer twitter, a safer youtube, a safer instagram, a safer […]

Live Streaming from a phone to a federated ecosystem isn't easy, but I love the challenge, and it's the main part of Loops 2nd NLnet grant! I'll be sharing more details in blog posts and at #fedicon later this summer. Imagine being able to go live during #fossy on Loops, that would be perfect […]

Loops is adding a Live Streaming feature, with realtime chat + reactions. The caveat: you can only go Live from our official mobile apps, web or custom integrations are not supported. We will send a (federated) notification when you go live, and will follow PeerTube and Owncasts implementation […]

I've been experimenting with the Live Streaming feature, if you are a Loops.video creator that wants early access to going Live, please DM me with your loops.video username.

Loops is now using a API code generator library that reads routes and controllers and builds the openapi v3 definition. It's pretty genius, and will help make API doc updates basically frictionless. https://joinloops.org/developers

You, the people, and NLnet, have funded a fully open TikTok alternative with web and mobile clients, ActivityPub federation and an opt-out For You feed algorithm that is privacy friendly. Anyone can start their own Loops community, and we're working on an official hosting service to help fund […]