So #Loops features on Hacker News, having 245 comments rn. Many fedizens revile HN, for reasons I well understand.

It's still interesting to look into this thread and distill some product feedback for Loops' improvement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113618

HN is often blamed for having only techbro's with growth-hack mentality, with no moral compass or ethics.

Yet in the comments most concerns *are* about the #ethics of creating an #Activityub federated #FOSS TikTok, even without the addictive algorithm. Worried that short-form vids as snacks for the brain are already detrimental to people's mental health.

Some good feedback to ponder on..

Though I also observe a general misunderstanding how loops differs from TikTok, and the website doesn't explain that well enough. I'd make general public ("users") the prime audience served on the frontpage, who are hardly addressed atm. Then have a separate Creators header menu section. Then a Values section that also gives background to tech benefits.

@Confidant6198 apparently I can repost directly from #Lemmy to #Mastodon - which completely slipped my mind.

There's a difference between parsing oembed(?) and utilizing #activityub - fittingly enough.

Perhaps the problem is that the Lemmy interface should let you share from a user on a different server, rather than #Maatodon should render oembeds differently.

But how about both?

Wordpress 👉 Flipboard 👉 Threads 👉 #Ghost

https://activitypub.ghost.org/

#activityub