I guess this is a me trying to figure out how to grow lemmy or fediverse in general. Just getting frustrated and want to do something constructive and put idea out and have idea come in.

In me head I head this line of "will you after engagement grows will you improve a project or will you improve a project to encourage engage" to me the answer settled on keep doing what you can to improve project and kinda hope it increases engagement.

For lemmy it seems as though the technical side is solid it's just building lemmy communities. Right now I'm thinking of building a Florida c/ but it would come off as a hard endeavor because idk what I'd do with it. Would I post random new stories in Florida would it be politics. Plus I've been told that posting links "clutters the Internet" and people would get confused as to where to find original links. Then there's getting people to a Florida c/, do I just go into discords and tell people about a fledging group

I do want geographical based c/ since they are more personal to people and would increase engagement on lemmy but that small steps that need to be worked out.

I do wonder if it would be worth it do sneak content from reddit to relevant c/. I know they do it for NSFW subreddits, but it might be worth it for hyper specific subreddits just to have that content to engage with, but that could be viewed as an IP infringement

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[–] 73ms@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

where are you getting the idea that Loops is five years old? Seems more like less than two years. From what I can tell it was publicly announced March 2024 (not yet available at that point): https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/loops-by-pixelfed/

In October 2024 it was starting to accept limited signups. The git repo has commits dating back to December 2024.

Federation for it is definitely still a WIP but I don't see much reason to doubt that it will be a fediverse platform.

[–] PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/104618452882003745

Lol I had to do custom range search to find that link, originally it was an interview dansup did talking about loops was 5 years old and an pixelfed project. I guess now it's it's own thing

[–] 73ms@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

thanks, that's interesting to see... I wouldn't say that what we mean by Loops now has been around for that long but it does show he has been thinking about shortform video for a while and used the same name as the experimental feature had.