Well, according to the Join loops website, Loops federates with Mastodon and Pixelfed only, so you do need to make an account either on Loops or one of those other media sites. Do note that your Masto or Pixelfed instance would need to federate with Loops instances. I wish I could verify but I don’t think my Pixelfed instance federates with Loops.video

As for which instance to pick, you can see a list at fedi.db and filter by Loops under the “All Software” drop down menu. Do you want the main popular instance? Do you want to focus on a topic? Do you want to stick with your country? There’s not many instances as of now, so maybe stick with the original Loops.video, since you can always migrate later.

Edit: Instance migration isn’t available yet, but it’s planned on the roadmap for Q3 2026.

And coming to F-droid soon!

Unfortunately that’s just not how people work. I hate Tiktok and never used it, but I still want Loops to do well so people can have a far healthier and privacy-considerate service. There are many inventions huamns have made that do harm instead of good, but we have to learn how to minimize what we can as we depend on them. Forcing people to “not have Tiktok-like services” is not a solution.

Funny that you say that, as Loops just posted to their Kickstarter and blog on Thursday that Loops is in the App Store, and no longer beta!

Hopefully that drives up some engagement.

I never said people didn’t care, but I definitely didn’t see a lot about the previous victims compared to Good and Pretti, in fact I never heard about González and Garcia.

It’s just a concerning and upsetting trend I’ve seen.

I am happy that people are mad about the death of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. But I am also saddened that it took their deaths for people to care. If I was killed by ICE next week, would anyone care? Do I not deserve angry protesters?

Highly disappointed with this comment section right now. If you feel divided by this post then maybe take time to reflect. You’re not a villain for only being sad about he recent killings, but getting mad at Bad for posting this is a shame.

This one implies that a random man in public is a sexual predator. That’s a hateful position

Holy shit, media literacy is truly dead. If people can’t read a one-page comic and understand that it’s making fun of pedophiles (literally says the fucking word) and not “men in general”, then we have to reset or something.

Me when I’m in a illiteracy competition with a persecution fetishist

I’m not a child but young enough to live with my parents, and I have family members who don’t actually understand the stuff I like, so the last 2 or 3 Pokemon games I’ve gotten were because of them lol. They do this with anime I never even watch too. Whatever’s popular, they’ll buy it…

I still haven’t been motivated to finish Sc/Vi, it’s just that boring. Sw/Sh was also a tad mediocre, but I still enjoyed parts of it. At least LA was fun, albiet too short imo.

Sorry to put your mood down. I was trying less to target you specifically and rant about Threadiverse in general due to seeing the overall hypocritical environment. People cry for one thing and then spit on it when it happens.

Please have a nice day, I know the internet sucks sometimes.

Man, I love Lemmy.

People keep complaining and making posts like “ugh the Americans are always crying on my feed with lazy politcal posts, where’s the funny?” or, “Guys we really need to post more to make the Fediverse more active and friendly,” and then get mad when someone posts more than twice a day.

The account has posted like what, 9 times over the past five days? None of the posts featured AI slop or politics, nor did they only post a single artist or ideology (ie showing signs of being an advertiser/influencer). And we do have purposeful bot accounts on here, so being a bot isn’t inherently bad (especially in dead/low-activity communities).

We have no karma to farm on Threadiverse, so why are people freaking out about a couple of new frequent posters? It’d be different if it was all slop, politics, or advertising, but they’re literally just normal accounts. Do we want active users or not?

Nah, the artist is Lainey.molnar on instagram who hss been posting since 2020, at least according to this proxy website. Her artsyle pretty much always looked like this, and AI art definitely wasn’t that good back in 2020.

Funnily enough, her stuff is supposed to be abpit women empowerment and overall left-leaning stuff, but I always got a weird feeling from her posts and art. Lo and behold there’s a long ass reddit post about her craziness (natural treatments for mental illness, alcoholism, potentially faking queer identity, etc.) Also, I guess she might be an original art stealer, aka a tracer lol. At least tracing still requires some effort.

NOTE: Just because this artist is a bad person doesn’t mean people can be bigots. Don’t reply to this with some “huh looks like the SJW feminist was actually bad, women ☕️” shit. I will block you.

EDIT: Read the reddit post again and apparently she’s been known to recreate her image by creating and destroying blogs over and over. Idk when she started drawing, but she used to have a myspace blog, so once again, not AI. Just human slop.

When I actually did choose to buy from Chick-fil-A in the past, it tasted fantastic, especially the spicy chicken sandwich. Compared to most fast food places, they’re miles better in both taste and service. But I don’t wanna support conservative Christians that are homophobic so I choose not to eat there anymore.

It’s unfortunate that they’re Christo-fasc, cause everyone else is mediocre or awful (well, except maybe Popeyes Chicken sandwich) compared to them.

TL;DR: Misskey/Sharkey is our best bet, but network effect exists and I’m sad because I want more artists.

Honestly, I used Amino forever ago in middle school so I have no idea what it looked like before it died, but I feel like the closest Fediverse comparison of it’s functionality would be Misskey/Sharkey. It has a sleek UI that has a text and media focus (blog style), polls, offers chats (I think), reaction emotes, etc. You could totally make an instance around Anime/Games/Movies/whatever in general, or do focused communities on a specific media, like this Splatoon-themed Japanese Misskey server I used to visit, ikaskey.bktsk.com. I use Aria as a mobile app for Misskey/Sharkey and it’s not too bad, although the webUI for Misskey/Sharkey is truly beautiful and engaging. Threadiverse is too forum focused to truly count as a Amino replacement imo, but none of Fediverse truly fits with how Amino ran (for good reasons lol, we’re a federated social media, they weren’t).

The only issue with Fediverse anything is truly just the network effect. I have a Sharkey account at Sakurajima.social that I barely use because I just can’t find the people I want to follow. Same for my Pixelfed.art account and my Urusai.social (mastodon) account that I have following the mastodon.art instance. Federation kills a lot of interaction too, like not seeing another instance’s posts yet, or trying to like something and it failing to do so, or when you have to pull them up on their local instance. Misskey probably has most of the active artists, but you have to usually know Japanese (I am learning at least), use a VPN since foreginers are banned (and VPNs might not work), and then they defederate with most English instances anyway. Tbf Misskey did start as a Japanese made service, so that’s why it’s like that.

There are so many artists that I wish would at least move to Bluesky and use bridgy fed so I could see them, but most are sticking with Twitter and Instagram because they don’t want to have to move their followers. Fediverse doesn’t have the numbers, and we’re so tech/political focused that it’s hard to advertise ourselves. I check some of the anime communities here, but it’s mostly just posting news about upcoming anime, some borderline empty discussions (about anime I don’t watch unfortunately), and memes. I can’t even find communities focused on individual games and media I like, and of the ones that do exist, they have months between posting times.

I took my other kid to the park last week and was called a sexual predator by another mom. Ive been pretending to be okay as the women in my family all blame me for “looking how I look”.

I’m very sorry for you, and fuck the women in your family for saying something like that. Someone who thinks you look like a sexual predator and says you deserve to get harassed for your looks is no family of mine. I’m a woman, but I’d slap the shit out of someone if I knew they said that to their male family member.

Maybe not in modern times, but I took a literature class recently and we learned some interesting stuff about the lives of the author’s we read. Some of the female authors did have husbands or men in their life that were like “I know it sounds crazy that a FEMALE could do this, but yes she actually did write this book and wrote better than a man! While still taking care of the kids like a good mother should of course!” and people just chilled with that. So I could see a ultra-trad boomer saying it.

I think it’s a bit of #5, but like others have stated, we have other communities on the Threadiverse that meet the requirements of the other numbers, like !nottheonion@lemmy.world for silly news headlines and !microblogmemes@lemmy.world for social media text post memes/funny posts. So I think we could gently encourage users to post to those communities instead.

The onky thing I’m not chill with is people just straight up posting the news/screenshots of serious political takes, but that’s an issue at !microblogmemes.world, not here imo. Outside of that were not too bad here.

Man, !microblogmemes@lemmy.world makes me so angry about this. I try to have this account be my funny account and my other lemmy account be the more serious, news-orientated/political account, but microblogmemes allows so much of this “screenshot of a literal fact” posts that it pollutes both accounts’ feeds.

I mean, yes, he should’ve picked a less busy period to test Linux out. But trackpad and wifi issues could come up at any time, which would be troublesome. I’ve gone weeks wihout issues, only to turn my laptop on one day and boom, touchpad doesn’t work. And some days I don’t have my mouse with me to use. And the other issue is Linux is so varied and different that a solution for one person might not work for you. That and lack of proper documentation. I have tried doing crazy shit to fix issues, only to then learn all I had to do was toggle a switch in the settings, but my distro didn’t make it obvious that’s what i should do.

(This LITERALLY is what happened with my touchpad, for some reason it disabled itself in settings after an update a while ago.)

People don’t want to spend weekends fixing their tech, and that’s understandable.

I haven’t tried it yet but Umamusume apparently is fun and even got a reward for ongoing game or smth at GOTY.

Not anime girls, but cookie run kingdom is fun, has a great story, doesn’t cost an arm and a leg to have fun, and lets you easily collect the old characters that you missed, high ranks included

did you know you can probably dual boot Linux from your school issued Chromebook so that you can program Lua for your Roblox mod? I didn’t! A kid taught me.

Funny that you say that, cause our school locked our Chromebooks down so much that we literally couldn’t use the terminal or change 90% of the settings. Schools basically force kids to be tech illiterate by disabiling and crippling our systems.