Also an idea that requires more patience, share posts from here to your contacts elsewhere. That's specially practical if it's some image post (like memes) and the platform has good link preview display.
Also also, not ideal and much more of a slow process, but if someone from your contacts is on Threads or Bluesky, respectively suggest to him/her to activate ActivityPub integration, and suggest to follow Fedi Bridgy. Both would be microblogging-oriented, but there should be some degree of propagation from threaded posts over to microblogging platforms.
Also³, as I suggested in a separated comment, integration between ActivityPub-compatible platforms varies depending on each engine involved, so in Lemmy for example, if something is seen as a channel, maybe people could seek to follow and interact with it too?
squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 9 hours ago
Loops is very new. Completely normal for a new service to have one main instance by the devs, you need an instance to test your stuff with real users. The server was open sourced in September and is now at beta6. There are in fact 8 loops servers in operation. This isn’t “fedi-washed”. It’s just very new. Give it some time and please be nice to people who build stuff for the fediverse in their free time. We need them.
PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world 5 hours ago
Actually loops is 5 years old, but it seemed to have a big overhaul in the past few months as in it actually going through development and the source code is actually being published.
Apparently the activitypub protocol was announced to be implemented in October of 2025. Which is kinda funny.
Also I did hop to different instances looking for users on across instances and yeah I could only find 1 out of half dozen I tried. So I’m sceptical on activitypub protocol integration. It could be that they aren’t federated
I’m actually impressed that there is 8 instances because I didn’t except there to be more than one this year
I help dansup with loops back in February and January. I put some pressure on him for answers and well he folded and basically blocked me, so I got the impression that he didn’t have the temperament to develop loops, but I’m half wrong because well he did eventually make it open source.
Also dansup is getting paid, he asked for grants and ran a fundraiser specifically for loops, so it’s not exactly “in their free time”
73ms@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
where are you getting the idea that Loops is five years old? Seems more like less than two years. From what I can tell it was publicly announced March 2024 (not yet available at that point): wedistribute.org/2024/03/loops-by-pixelfed/
In October 2024 it was starting to accept limited signups. The git repo has commits dating back to December 2024.
Federation for it is definitely still a WIP but I don’t see much reason to doubt that it will be a fediverse platform.
PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world 2 hours ago
mastodon.social/@pixelfed/104618452882003745
Lol I had to do custom range search to find that link, originally it was an interview dansup did talking about loops was 5 years old and an pixelfed project. I guess now it’s it’s own thing
Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 hours ago
About size, Lemmy and Kbin (RIP) were pretty slow 2~3 years ago. Now, even though I block most generalist, region-specific and news communities, I still struggle to keep track of my feed.
And if someone tries to build something good as a job, I don't think this job of his should be turned miserable.
PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world 2 hours ago
I have no idea what turned miserable mean. I’ve been leaving him alone as best I can, I keep encountering him unintentionally.
If you’re a backer (of any person or project) you should ask questions and expect answers. For me personally I’m forward with my project, that way someone can take it over or build on top of it