Yeah, I know, seems to be every day I post about my misadventures with Fediverse software, right? Seriously though, somethings are moving really fast...

#holos just released 17-1, that's like five versions in less than a month, and Federation finally works, yay... And we seem to have a new problem, I seem to have followed a few new people without following them, that's a weird new glitch @Holos Social Still, it otherwise works great, extremely fast to update, in fact the biggest problem is with my phone which seems to go to sleep when the screen goes off, and all notifications stop, obviously a problem here. Beyond that, its really me, while I do the occasional message from my phone, I'm an old grey muzzle, and prefer to leave the net on my computer, so I don't think I'll be sticking around, maybe to the end of the month, maybe less, but if'n you're the type that does most things from your phone, give this one a look, its a really neat project, a really good alternative to Mastodon.

#Loops , maybe it'll work, I really wish it would.

#wafrn now this one, this one I'm really in love with. Sure, there's a few features I wish it had, and unless I can find a way other than hashtags to sort my content, it won't replace this place completely, but it could very easily become my main and replace my #Mastodon . Honestly I think it might kill #diaspora , don't get me wrong, I love Diaspora, but I think the lack of #ActivityPub has done it no favors, and Wafrn may be the first viable replacement for it. Either way, for those not familiar with it, its basically the Fediverse's answer to Tumblr, and while it doesn't look quite the same, it looks quite nice, and has some fun features including the ability to bite people.

So, no update on #Loops , obviously its dead to me at this point since it doesn't work.

#holos we did a little more testing and stuff, I'm following my account both here and on my Mastodon, with the same results, however I have found if I mention this account, the post shares and shares quickly, so it looks like my account is simply not Federating, since its both this instance and stlouis.social that can't see its posts.

@Holos Social

Having Loops problems, it took a few weeks, maybe a month before I was able to upload that last video, and I thought the app was working.

Nope, yesterday's video is a no go, I get the title typed... And it crashes, doesn't even start uploading. Not sure if recording in the app would work better, it refused as I hadn't given it mike permission, something it never asked for.

That's one of the weirdest things, it never asked for any permissions, oddly it can upload videos even though it doesn't have permission to access them, but it can't record as it doesn't have mike access, how's that work? Also it apparently has no notification function, I tried to allow it, but got told nope, it doesn't do notifications, which seems a bit odd, I mean how do I know if someone commented or liked a video without opening the app?

I might need an update, not sure, nor do I have any idea how to do that as I'd side loaded this as soon as it was available, so dunno how that works.

#Loops

EDIT
Forgot the notification thing

rldane.space/loops-is-interest…

I guess I'm one of those original artists, I've never really been interested in YouTube shorts or TikTok or Reels, though I have enjoyed content from all three, so far I've only created an intro, and one silly comment video about my wardrobe choices for the day, and anything else I post there will be original content.

loops.video/@Vextaur

#Loops

Wait, I've always been a bit loopy, I meant to say that I've joined Loops. Actually joined it last week, but finally posted my first vid, just a little intro video, but I think there'll be more as I like it. I could use to find a PeerTube for longer stuff, and I'll likely do a second intro since I think I'm going to make more use of this than I'd originally thought, but we'll see.

loops.video/@Vextaur

#Loops #video