We're excited to announce that Loops now federates with the fediverse. After months of development, ActivityPub support has officially entered beta. Your loops can now travel across the open social web.
What This Actually Means
If you're on Loops, you can now follow creators on Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, and any
I tried searching for @loops.video users on three separate mastodon instances and the only ones that pop up are the “official” accounts (@dansup@loops.video and @loops.video@loops.video).
Anyone else have better luck federating with loops?
That’s just how the fediverse works. Your instance only know accounts from other instances by boosting or directly searching for them. Not seeing most accounts from newly federated instances is by design.
I did also try directly searching for accounts from loops, i.e. @eickertv@loops.video and Rudygardea@loops.video, and neither of those popped up either.
Seems a bit early to me.
I tried searching for @loops.video users on three separate mastodon instances and the only ones that pop up are the “official” accounts (@dansup@loops.video and @loops.video@loops.video).
Anyone else have better luck federating with loops?
That’s just how the fediverse works. Your instance only know accounts from other instances by boosting or directly searching for them. Not seeing most accounts from newly federated instances is by design.
That’s fair.
I did also try directly searching for accounts from loops, i.e. @eickertv@loops.video and Rudygardea@loops.video, and neither of those popped up either.