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@pixelfed: Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated Using #ActivityPub (mastodon.social)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Dansup is seriously great at designing social platforms. I don't have much personal use for it, as I never cared for instagram, but I think Pixelfed is the best designed platform on the Fediverse. I'm sure Loops will be great too. Fantastic name too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I think lemmy is the best one on the fediverse as i have tried most of em and only lemmy feels really polished, usable, better than all alternatives etc but yeah its personnel preferance i guess .

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I like lemmy's design, but I thought it's user onboarding process was pretty bad when I joined. It's much better since the join-lemmy.org redesign.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I use the Sync app to enjoy Lemmy, and I miss a design revamp on the official Lemmy front-end UI for Web when I'm using a desktop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, the name is really good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Kudos to the guy for doing stuff + it being FOSS, but I wouldn’t call him “great at designing social platforms”. Pixelfed is fediverse instagram, loops is fediverse tiktok

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Pretty much everything on the fediverse is just a clone of another social media. Pixelfed still has the most intuitive design for new users and a great onboarding process. Took Mastodon a while to catch up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Just wait 'til you find out that Lemmy is also a fediverse clone of a toxic platform

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Yea part of the point in designing these alternatives (to my understanding) is that the userbase can feel immediately at home, there is little barrier to entry