My fear with pixelfed and loops is the single dev seemingly more interested in money and clout than in building something long lasting for the community. I don't expect it to last long, but my friends really crave an app to exchange reels in and so we're hoping loops will be sufficient until something more stable comes around.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

New to open source? Good ideas don't really die in open source. If loops.video or Pixelfed are good ideas, open source will just do its thing because no one owns the idea once it goes open source

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Good ideas absolutely do die all the time even in open source. If the original dev doesn't want to play nice, it's actually pretty difficult to create a new fork that everyone will agree on. Hopefully these federated apps have enough inertia to prevent the userbase from splintering when the original devs move on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 25 minutes ago* (last edited 25 minutes ago)

What's a good idea in open source that did die (and is still absolutely dead, even)? I'm sure you can find a GitHub project and be like "I like this idea and it's dead" fine. But these projects are so used and popular... they aren't going anywhere. That's the context of this discussion. These apps are fine if the dev leaves because they are open source now. The right people will continue the work of this guy goes I think.