We're excited to announce that Loops now federates with the fediverse. After months of development, ActivityPub support has officially entered beta. Your loops can now travel across the open social web.
What This Actually Means
If you're on Loops, you can now follow creators on Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, and any
How do I actually use it? I have an account, but when I go to the site it only shows me my “account dashboard” - how do I actually see what people have been posting?
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ads. All such posts otherwise are subject to removal.
Rules:
1: All Lemmy rules apply
2: Do not post low effort posts
3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist
7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
How do I actually use it? I have an account, but when I go to the site it only shows me my “account dashboard” - how do I actually see what people have been posting?
Be cool if our Lemmy apps can access
As long as it is opt in. I fucking hate the short video format with a passion.
By definition, your instance can defederate from that platform.
You can block instances