Coelacanth

Thunder was still not quite what I was looking for last time I tried it. I am very happy with Summit now, personally.

This is longer than he’s ever been MIA for before, this time I think it’s about 2 years since the last update, and there are several literally critical bugs. But this is the downside with absentee developers like that, you never know for sure whether it’s abandonware or not. But he seems to be actively working on other stuff still so I just don’t think Lemmy took off enough in popularity for him to feel like it’s worth his time monetarily. Makes sense if this was always more of a business than a passion project, which is the way it appears to be to me.

I love Sync but be aware that it is no longer being actively developed. It has some bugs that will never be fixed, and might break entirely in the future.

They saw the porn was gone and decided “nah, fuck it”.

They are. NSFW filters often also filter out stuff like the ICE shootings, for example.

I mean Loops has a For You page, but the algorithm seems much worse than TikTok (unsurprisingly). Partly I’m sure simply because there is so much less content to pull from, so it might seem worse than it is purely because there might not actually be anything worthwhile on it to recommend to you in the first place. But TikTok’s algorithm is famously extremely good at identifying things you would like, even things you might not know you would like yourself. To be able to be an alternative in the brainrot delivery market, Loops needs to be able to come at least closer.

For content creators it needs a built-in editor instead of forcing every video to be one take. And for consumers it needs a really good recommendation algorithm. The reason TikTok is so successful is that its absurdly efficient (and incredibly invasive) algorithm will find you content you’d like within probably minutes of setting up an account.

I like that this exists, but I don’t think it’s ready for mass adoption yet.