There’s a lot of cool stuff in the pipeline for the open source federated alternative to Tiktok and Vine, including a Web UI and a boatload of new features. Let’s dive in, and see what’s coming in the next release.
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It launched wayyyy too early and basically killed the project.
I haven’t even think about loops since that disaster launch. Not even a single though.
I liked the idea of loops, still have it on my phone, but there wasn’t enough content to make it worth checking
Wonder if signing up will work. That’s the feature I am hoping for. Tried multiple times over many months, hasn’t worked yet. Would love to be excited but sign up not working leaves me kinda apathetic.
not sure why they keep callin it open source.
how bout you start throwin that around after you make the code available
A significant portion of the code is available, I think it’s just a matter of getting the latest code pushed out to public release status. Judging by the server repo, seems like a lot of development is happening out in the open.
This guy is a fucking software machine.
You can selfhost it soon™ 😁
Again based on PHP and I think the documentation will be incomplete and outdated, like it is for Pixelfed. For Pixelfed some commands are only mentioned in Github issues, S3 was a pain. He is working on too many projects. Any news on the Sup-messenger? 😅
What’s up with ActivityPub projects being beholden to PHP. Not even pitting languages against each other, just interesting that most new projects nowadays will choose something like Typescript + React but fediverse tends to favor PHP.
I don’t think Fediverse tends to favor PHP. Mastodon is written in Ruby, GoToSocial is Go, *key forks are Typescript for example. Pixelfed is the only one which comes in my mind for PHP.
PHP is not beginnerfriendly to setup imo. Different configuration files for different settings…
Im thinking of the fork the devs of the programming.dev instance were trying to build, it was PHP. Can’t remember the name, then this and Pixelfed. I don’t know if favoritism is the right word but I do feel like 3 projects is a lot for the current ecosystem lol.
Certainly an interesting decision.
The bigger problem of Pixelfed seems the codebase and documentation. Dan is mostly alone while developing it. No public betas, just Screenshots with intresting features, which will come soon™
Then again, the documentation. I tried spinning up Pixelfed on ubuntu server with the docs provided. Laravel did not start, cryptical error message. A module was disabled in the default PHP.ini. No mention in the docs, just which PHP modules are needed. I found the solution in a Github issue
Not to be a dick, but… why do I care? This is a Meta product.I was thinking of threads. My bad.
It’s not owned or operated by meta as far as I know? Where did you see that
Yep I was crossing some wires
It happens, maybe you were thinking about vine, I heard someone rich saying they wanted to bring that back
Oh man, I do remember vine. That was actually a kinda fun era, because that was the OG. Before it got monetized out the ass.
God, I miss the pre-enshitification era
Oh it’s going to be far worse, I just checked who it was. Musk said he’s going to bring Vine’s archive into “Grok Imagine.”.
So AI vine, because Twitter bought vine in 2012, so they must own the rights https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/elon-musk-says-hes-bringing-back-vines-archive/
Hahahahahahaha fml 🙃
