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Written by CyberFrog on 2025-01-25 at 15:15

Wow, a single comment questioning @dansup@mastodon.social and I was immediately blocked, not even a discussion man? really?

their choice to keep calling loops "open source" while the code is closed, as well as the recent post about hiding federation features behind extra menus so all new users auto-signup to services controlled by him, is concerning for genuine reasons (although I'm sure he's already called me a troll or something)

This combined with the comments/jokes about "exploring" advertising for the loops platform is highly concerning, here you have somebody siphoning users into a single server they control, while developing an app they call open source without any code being available, who also thinks advertisements are a reasonable business model for the fediverse...

We could have just spoken about your views on this, but I suppose my ideas about FOSS and no advertising were too threatening lol

Think twice, or thrice, about actually signing up and supporting #Pixelfed or #Loops while dansup is behind them tbh

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Written by Ludovic Archivist Lagouardette on 2025-01-25 at 15:19

@froge @dansup where does he say it is open source? I wanna get blocked too

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Written by CyberFrog on 2025-01-25 at 15:20

@Archivist@social.linux.pizza @dansup@mastodon.social his account is full of posts proclaiming loops is the "open source" competitor to mainstream platforms that the world needs

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Written by CyberFrog on 2025-01-25 at 15:21

@Archivist@social.linux.pizza @dansup@mastodon.social to be clear, I do understand he plans to open source the app once it's "stable", I just fundamentally disagree with calling loops an open source application at the current time, since there is no code available to the public.

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Written by Ludovic Archivist Lagouardette on 2025-01-25 at 15:33

@froge @dansup I was asking for a link because he posts random self promo twice a minute so finding anything among his posts is hard

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Written by Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse on 2025-01-25 at 15:35

@froge @dansup Thx for the headsup about loops (Hadn't looked into it, not being part of the TikTok-Generation :-P). Can't say I'm all that surprised, given all the bullshit he's posted. Am not blocked yet, but I'd certainly consider it to be a badge of honour :-D

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Written by CyberFrog on 2025-01-25 at 15:35

@lpwaterhouse@ioc.exchange @dansup@mastodon.social I genuinely just wanted to talk to the guy about it, we've had positive discussions in the past, this was unexpected tbh

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Written by Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse on 2025-01-25 at 15:37

@froge @dansup Eh, sometimes people go off the deep end quite suddenly; He's clearly lost a few marbles now that he sees a way monetize.

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Written by Gianmarco Gargiulo :tux: :kde: on 2025-01-25 at 17:00

@froge @dansup I found this post which says "Loops will be open source". He did something similar with the Pixelfed app where it was not open source at first and then it became open source.

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113248695568258812

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