Listening to Shu Yang Li, Alene Hahle and Kambale Musavuli at #pubconf24 I see that there are way bigger problems than the ones we are trying to solve in hosting the #Fediverse and making it better.
However, I do see things like #Mastodon#Pixelfed and #Loops as a solution to a lot of the problems they are showing.
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!
https://loops.video is a very promising ActivityPub platform for short form video, and could use your financial support to help fund and sustain this initiative!
;; Getting rid of explicit indexing was just step one.
-- After a few days/months/years, I now realize that it is more important and less buggy if I think only of the function to call (and whether I want to end up with a new (maybe pruned) collection, a single thing, or "both" (that's how I think of scans))
Okay, my stream is going live now. I'm not going to do a very long stream, just a couple hours to get back into the groove. Feel free to come by for some #fedimusic
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!