The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on Kickstarter to fuel the apps’ further development.

The trio is part of the growing open social web, also known as the fediverse, powered by the same ActivityPub protocol used by X alternative Mastodon. The latter saw increased signups and use after the company formerly known as Twitter sold to Elon Musk in October 2022 and during the X exodus that followed the U.S. presidential election.

In the months and years following that sale, open source and decentralized apps like Mastodon and Bluesky (which uses the newer AT Protocol), have continued to grow their user bases, as people sought alternatives to centralized social media apps controlled by billionaires like Musk and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg.

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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 2 days ago (13 children)

Never heard of Sup for some reason, gotta check it out.

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It started out as a major upgrade to Pixelfed's dm system and got spun off into it's own thing, same as Loops.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago

Basically a tool to add encrypted messaging to the fediverse, using the Signal protocol.

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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Has anyone here tried Loops? Does it have an algorithm and if so what's it like? Any good?

[–] bishbosh@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago

I got it on my android phone. Currently just a chronological stream off all posts. A lot is just resposts of tiktoks or other cribbed content. When it's not taken from tiktok, I feel like it's pretty mild random video of pets or landscapes.

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[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Folks if you still have legacy social, agitation over there is doing rounds right now. Unfortunately, there's significantly fewer of us working to get people onboarded than thee last migration. If you still have those accounts, please consider plugging fedi.

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