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Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

usually to prevent spam and other crazy shit

but a registration shouldn’t be needed if you just want to browse and scroll.

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- Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.
  
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  - rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    the project is unfinished
    
    Understatement of the year. Dan has posted “loops next week” for more than an year already…
    
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    Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yeah, definitely could be making faster improvements, and it’s disheartening considering Pixelfed hasn’t had major improvements either. But I’m not a coder, so other than the fact that I donated to the spring Kickstarter, I can’t complain much.
    
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- PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.
  
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  - rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I am not sure I follow. How would a troll cause trouble to an instance by lurking on a site?
    
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    PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Oh, I thought you meant no email address required to make an account.
    
    Just having to register in order to read the feed is probably just for server load reasons, if I had to guess.
    
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