loops, 1 month ago to fediverse

✨ Another milestone reached!

The backend is ready for beta testing, and we're looking forward to reaching out to a few people next week to join the beta!

Things are about to get loopy 🥳

#loops #activitypub #tiktok

Short screencast demonstrating Loops app + backend auth and feed/profile apis

dansup, 1 month ago to random

I’m considering imposing some limit like Loops get deleted after 1 month or you can only have 20 loops at a time.

It would def give it a diff vibe than TikTok and encourage less staged and more in the moment content I think.

Thoughts?

#loops #boostsAppreciated

dansup, 1 month ago to fediverse

I made a few other federation optimizations like sharing the private keys for every local user, and an experimental new protocol transport for real time federation between loops servers

I'm really pushing the boundaries, again 😎

#loops #loopsDev #activitypub #federation

dansup, 1 month ago to fediverse

So while I was working on the @loops backend tonight, I decided to implement support for username changes.

You will be able to change your loops username without breaking federation or existing links!

I'm working on a FEP so other projects can implement this too

#loops #activitypub #usernameChanges

dansup, 1 month ago to random

I spent way to long on the Loops video editor and it's not close to being done

Will be delaying the editor so we can focus on getting the beta shipped ASAP

In the meantime, we will allow you to select a video from your camera roll (that you can edit with CapCut or whatever)

#loops #loopsDev

dansup, 1 month ago to random

I'm currently building out the new loops backend (loopd)

Laravel 11 + Sanctum + Valet = supercharged productivity

In less than an hour I already have a production backend deployed with auth and a few API endpoints 💪

#loops #loopsDev

loops, 1 month ago to random

Wow, over 2.5K followers in just a few days, thank you!

#loops

dansup, 1 month ago to ArtificialIntelligence

Making amazing progress with @loops

Tonight I’m writing the For You algorithm!

#loops #forYou #algorithm

loops, 1 month ago to random

Loops profile screenshot ✨

Are you ready for #Loops?

nitpicking, 2 months ago to Pixelfed

@pixelfed @dansup

What's the right way to suggest #pixelfed (web) features? I have two (which also apply to #Loops).

1)Adjust max size of videos or images within a feed to the window size. Now, to view a video/image that's bigger than the window you click (=start video, view image), then for a video immediately "maximize" it (which shrinks it) to make it fit.

2)Filters! There are channels/keywords that I don't care about, e. g. puppies, surrealist art. Please let me block them.

Thanks.

dansup, 2 months ago to random

I am a bit worried about publishing the #loops mobile app source code, specifically the camera logic

There are no existing libraries or examples, that I'm aware of, that do what Loops Camera does

I'm mostly worried about shady clone apps or other uses that violate our license

I think an amicable solution would be to publish the app source, but with a placeholder basic camera while shipping the full camera to App Stores

What do you think?

dansup, 2 months ago to random

I started working on a Text-to-Speech feature in Loops.

Similar to the TikTok voice feature.

It's complicated to say the least, especially when you allow users to set the start position, nevermind breaking it up into segment layers for precision timing.

Will pause this for now and allow users to import from Camera Roll (so you can use CapCut for this), otherwise this would delay the Loops beta release for weeks.

#loops #loopsDev

dansup, 2 months ago to random

The oldest 30 active pixelfed.social users will be invited to beta test @loops this weekend if everything goes as planned.

More pixelfed.social users will be invited over the next few weeks and eventually we'll be ready to open to everyone.

I want to get Loops shipped ASAP, even if it means delaying some major features (comments, notifications, mentions, hashtags) by a few weeks.

#loops #shippingSoon

loops, 2 months ago to fediverse

Loops Camera demo ✨

We're getting close to the public beta release!

#loops #fediverse #activityPub

Short screencast of the Loops app showing the feed and swipe left to load the Camera which is fully functional and includes a timer to indicate how much recording time you have remaining.

dansup, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Edit: The demo vid is live! Checkout https://pixelfed.social/p/loops/675986279573558465

Anyone want to see a video demo of @loops Camera?

#loops

loops, 2 months ago to random

After a few iterations, late nights, and endless testing, we've finished building the Loops Camera! 🎉

Get ready to capture your world like never before! 📸✨

#Loops #LoopsCamera #ComingSoon

dansup, 2 months ago to random

I'm working on the @loops Camera

The challenge is to optimize the video as much as possible (on device) before upload to reduce load on the backend.

A 15s video (with audio) is just under 800kb at 480p30 using h265, not bad 😎

#loops

dansup, 2 months ago to random

Sharing another #Loops sneak peek tonight 🚀

Follow @loops

realsimon, 2 months ago to random German

When stux was tinkering with #goldfish I contributed a few euros, not much but better than nothing. And now it looks like the time has come to support dansup and #loops because that's some S tier quality work he's doing there!

dansup, 2 months ago to fediverse

The goal: Show relevant videos they haven’t seen before

The challenge: Tokenize videos using on device ML, link related topics, determine interested topics, paginate video feed with unseen and relevant posts

Loops For You algorithm v1 is being implemented and will be tested by our first batch of beta users later this month!

We will have a chronological feed, but we think you’ll prefer the For You feed 😎

#loops #forYou #activitypub

dansup, 2 months ago to fediverse

It would be dope if Loops supported Nomadic Identity from the beginning.

This is now a goal, thanks to @cats@hub.cats-home.net for the suggestion!

#loops #activitypub #nomadicIdentity

dansup, 2 months ago to random

Loops is a separate project from @pixelfed

You will be able to use your PF account to login/join, but you will have a separate fedi account

I'm keeping Pixelfed focused around photo sharing, you won't need to worry about us integrating #loops into our main app!

Similar to Sup, we're keeping this separate, but easily accessible from the main app

Also, I'm looking for a project manager for Loops to takeover when ready so I can focus on coding and they tell me what to do!

Boosts appreciated!

loops, 2 months ago to random

An early look at the #Loops UI 👀