It would be nice if there was an easy and straightforward way for instances to create their own shared indexes. There's a feature for this in PeerTube, which I guess is supposed to act like instance following + a shared search catalogue. It would be handy to know how to easily make sort of the federation equivalent of a webring.
The devs are also working on a mobile app, which I think is something the platform is sorely missing.
I actually wrote a bit about this in the past: https://deadsuperhero.com/2021/10/peertubes-content-wasteland/
TL;DR - Yeah, it's possible to fill up your local catalogue of remote entries really quickly through instance following. The problem is not a shortage of instances or videos, the problem is that cutting it down to the good stuff requires a lot of active curation. It's very easy to just open the firehose and drown in a never-ending stream of junk.
To be fair, the flagship instance recently had a surge of 200,000 new sign-ups. Dansup mentioned to me that he's currently seeing like 50 new posts every minute. He's probably scrambling to upgrade infra.
I agree, but there's still plenty of time for that to happen. I wish them all the success in the world.
I can confirm that the email is only for sending out an invite, for downloading the beta version. You just use your existing MastoAPI-enabled Fediverse account.
Good to know. I have an inkling that this probably slipped under the radar when the SurfApp team were looking at branding and trademarks. Despite the fact that Suckless projects tend to have a somewhat popular following in the *nix community, it's probably pretty obscure anywhere else.
That’s not what this is. It’s more of a feed aggregator / reader with social features, framed as a browser of sorts.
The main thing it’s used for is feed curation and content discovery. You can basically use anything with a feed as a source, then aggregate and filter things.
It’s kind of like a news reader version of Yahoo Pipes almost.
Kind of. It doesn't do everything, but it could be a killer app for custom feeds and discovery in the Fediverse. It's still in Beta, and feels a little underdeveloped, but it's a promising proof-of-concept.
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That's honestly hilarious, fuck Minds.com. Place is literally Gab Lite.
Lukewarm take at best. It's cool if it's not for you personally, but a lot of people use it, love it, and benefit from it.
I think the stuff that Loops is building out could eventually become a standard feature that a lot of Fediverse platforms optionally offer. That kind of interop for the people that want it is frankly a win.
Yeah, I'd say it might have more to do with the fact that making texts posts is a lot easier than making videos. It's still possible to introduce too much noise, regardless of medium, but there's a lot less friction when the medium is simpler and doesn't require much work.