How does loops even work? I thought i can for example follow 3d printing but i can only follow user. Thats useless to me.
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joyjoy@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Banthex@feddit.org 7 months ago
Comment on Fediverse alternative for Tiktok?
joyjoy@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
How does loops even work? I thought i can for example follow 3d printing but i can only follow user. Thats useless to me.
darkguyman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
malfisya@piefed.social 7 months ago
It uses activitypub, the same as Pixelfed. It is the same creator afterall. AFAIK, it is not yet federated. It ask for registration because it is pretty much in open beta right now. No other fediverse alternatives for Tiktok except that.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Loops is still in beta, so there’s no other instances yet, but it’s gonna use ActivityPub like everyone else does so it can federate with Pixelfed (and probs mastodon). Also, like 90% of Fediverse instances require registration, usually to prevent spam and other crazy shit (CSAM, literal gore, etc.) from being posted. Just gonna have to wait a bit.
rglullis@communick.news 7 months ago
but a registration shouldn’t be needed if you just want to browse and scroll.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Didn’t realize you just wanted to scroll. Yeah, almost no instance requires registration to scroll. Once again, I think Loops is just requiring registrations now because the project is unfinished, and probably can’t handle a large amount of users. They also need easy feedback from users.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 7 months ago
That’s not how it works though.
I actually agree that registration is silly. It’s trivial to create fake email addresses; all it does is present obstacles and slight privacy implications for legitimate users, while forming an incredibly mild speedbump for malicious users. But, it’s probably not going away, every little tool in the toolbox that can be deployed by overworked volunteer admins against the unending tide of malicious users trying to make their lives more difficult is probably going to get deployed if it is easy to do.