It's crazy how this is a legit alternative to big tech but this hasn't blown up yet. Crazy

The app itself still won’t let me. Perhaps on via the web? I’ll check again cause I’m a dolt and misspelled my user name when I signed up.

Is loops okay overall? I tried to use it but the only thing that I can see when I first open the app is a login button. I have no login.

There's no way to create an account. Tapping Help Center takes me to a 404 page.

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I'm really surprised it made it to Play Store so long before F-Droid. I wonder if there were more hurdles with the latter?

It’s okay. Seems like 60% of videos are reposts from Insta or TikTok.

I’m doing my part by uploading content occasionally (though very inconsistently). It can take me a while to have an idea and then see it through, and most of my videos are random silly posts.

My mistake, its Pixelfed I was thinking of. Thanks for pointing that out.

You can do this on the webUI and it will remove them from any version of the app, https://loops.video/dashboard/content

We are working on an updated AltStore release too!

Oh thank you! I dont have the option yet: I noticed that the AltStore has an outdated version of Loops compared to the Apple AppStore. Have to wait I guess

F-Droid support is coming, you can get the sideloadable APK here -> https://github.com/joinloops/loops-expo/releases/tag/v1.0.3.5

We're working on adding to F-Droid, what do you mean the app uses AI?

Not having it on F-Droid is a huge downside.

EDIT: Was thinking of Pixelfed, I originally said "The bigger one now however is the app now uses AI which is of course the opposite of many of its potential users want."

We are cracking down on 100% AI content accounts, please do report them so we can delete them!

Yes, go to Settings -> Feeds -> Hide AI generated content

Just checked out this platform and holy got damn shit it's like 80-90% AI powered banjo clowns.

What the hell?

Sounds like a bug, any video should be uploadable from a social media... Maybe report it to the dev?

Dev will soon publish on f droid. It was only today that it launched on stores

Following this, look into Obtainium

Oh, nice! I tried searching and it didn't come up, so I thought parent comment was correct. Glad to see it.

Thank you! I know I've accessed the github page because I have the app, but couldn't find it for some reason. I really like your app!

https://blog.joinloops.org/loops-is-now-on-google-play/

I don't think loops is even available on the play store, just apple's store. For android, Github release page is the only way to get it.

you can download the APK from the Github release! https://github.com/joinloops/loops-expo/releases/tag/v1.0.2.4

Download Aurora Store from F-Droid and use that to get Play store-only apps.

I haven't seen any "big" creators from other platforms on Loops. They probably don't care right now, as there's no money to be earned there just yet (my opinion at least).

I try to post regularly for the sake of staying active. Plus I just like to film and edit, keeps me busy and it's the type of content I like myself, but haven't really seen much of on Loops yet. But I'm not a big creator either hahaha

Even then, part of the worthiness is staying on site. I doubt the algorithm is going to promote content where people don't stick around to see more.