Yeah, it’s totally not ready for that amount of influx. To be fair, it’s not even out of beta. I don’t think even the dev would claim it’s ready for that scale yet. Hopefully it’ll be ready the next time an event like that happens

The cool kids are forcing people to read this at gunpoint nowadays

The new build 11 released yesterday lets you see only loops from people you follow. There’s also a “For You” option that I assume will eventually do what you’re looking for. Right now it shows loops sorted by newest, like before

Not going crazy. It’s always been intended to be part of the Fediverse, it’s just under heavy development and adding ActivityPub support is something the dev is working on right now.

The URL for that image is… something. rape.pet looks very pedo adjacent:

also, as long as it’s illegal, we dont allow any CSAM on this instance

TBH, I think this is a little counterproductive. It makes corporate social media seem like a delicious treat. Exhorting people to do the right thing like “eat your veggies” probably isn’t the best way to convince them. Something like this seems like a better comparison. Something bad for you and gross, but uses flashy marketing to convince you otherwise:

Copying my comment from the cross-post. Anyone here know enough about ActivityPub to know how much work it will be to make it interoperate nicely with Lemmy in addition to Mastodon?

Looks like it’s still a WIP. lemmy.world says that it can’t find the user, but my instance shows his profile:

https://midwest.social/u/dansup@loops.video

If you click on the full username, you get redirect to this page, which is the raw ActivityPub profile:

https://loops.video/ap/user/1

{
  "@context": [
    "https://w3id.org/security/v1",
    "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
    {
      "toot": "http://joinmastodon.org/ns",
      "manuallyApprovesFollowers": "as:manuallyApprovesFollowers",
      "indexable": "toot:indexable"
    }
  ],
  "id": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1",
  "type": "Person",
  "following": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1/following",
  "followers": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1/followers",
  "inbox": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1/inbox",
  "outbox": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1/outbox",
  "preferredUsername": "dansup",
  "name": "dansup",
  "summary": "",
  "url": "https://loops.video/@dansup",
  "manuallyApprovesFollowers": true,
  "indexable": false,
  "published": "2024-06-06T10:30:00+00:00",
  "publicKey": {
    "id": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1#main-key",
    "owner": "https://loops.video/ap/user/1",
    "publicKeyPem": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA1zzC7XBF81lhJV1o47AA\n9JgguOxygANanxzRUaGOA7BUC9kAWbXI2CoQtzVBTGRiSaiy84d8UgdKQOiAT49m\nmmPdkdnb7zeL7PUKVucv5ppxL5pjXvx11FfYDOIvy52TxjirDIEhvSCiau3BSYf7\nvXtIgsoGnVTkDaStoDauDMfEPGnf6E7eCWHKPOkbeuxF3B3k/Mz2qEmg2MXxegt/\njE4Y75E0BiPs+GeCcYBwri6QddGlQlfveUmj5ZGN2AZGaZdZBNE4FlvJK14GIiTi\n/xT1rYJgwEViFSvGdqXXeRWcWth6UzyzzQrUARLniAf9xcFyYFdx6oJmI3Mu4EWd\nMwIDAQAB\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n"
  },
  "icon": {
    "type": "Image",
    "mediaType": "image/jpeg",
    "url": "https://loopsusercontent.com/avatars/1/v0.jpg"
  }
}

Based on the mention of toots and mastodon, I’m guessing he’s focusing on that first. Hopefully interoperability with Lemmy will come quickly though. Being able to embed loops as posts would be really nice.

Yeah, I’ve been posting a few of the other ones, they all come from this book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prehistory_of_The_Far_Side

Background on this comic:

The readme describes it better:

Bot-centered Fediverse app. Users post ONLY through bots. On sign-up, every user chooses a bot (or Sidekick) and can then customize user experience and execute commands with it by posting to the bot. The post prompt is made customizable and elevated in this sense (fedi-app with custom-prompts).

Any proof that it’s real? Commits can be dated however you want, and archive.org doesn’t have any snapshots from before today

Yeah, I’ve heard a very similar joke from a boomer:

Did you know PMS is mentioned in the Bible?

“…and Mary rode Joseph’s ass all the way to Bethlehem.”

I think this comment was meant for another thread?

If it’s unclear, it’s referencing an infamous Far Side cartoon called Cow Tools. Here’s some background:

It even has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools

Yep, exactly. Thanks for clarifying that. As a bonus, here’s some background on the infamous comic:

I won’t use threads, but the Fediverse is relatively small. It would suck if they managed to play dirty tricks and steal a large fraction of current fediverse users.

There’s a lot of shitty things they can do. They could push for changes to ActivityPub that nobody sane wants, confusing everybody that says “We support ActivityPub”, and spread FUD about anyone that doesn’t move to their new shitty version. Similar to how Google pushes through changes to web standards that benefit them, forcing Firefox to implement them too.

Nope, those are all not clickable. Probably requires logging in or something. Does not inspire confidence in them being a long-term team player, but we’ll see what happens I guess 🤷

Interesting. Can’t tell if that worked because it wants me to log in. Wonder why they don’t just allow appending the instance at the end like the rest of the fediverse does. Does that post show the username as plain text for you as well? It’s still showing that way for me.

The advantage of the Fediverse is exactly that, that each instance can decide if they federate or not. The thing that I’m wary of is a renewal of Embrace, extend, and extinguish. I’d like to think that Zuckerberg isn’t going to try playing dirty tricks, but we’ll see what happens if and when Threads ever becomes really successful.