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Currently building @pixelfed, @loops, @supapp, @fedidb, and more.
Gay Métis creator living on and respecting the Indigenous lands of the Dane-zaa (Beaver), Nehiyawak (Cree), Dene, and Métis peoples in the Grande Prairie, Alberta region.
Committed to LGBTQIA2S+ inclusion, racial justice, Indigenous rights, and transgender rights.
Building the future we deserve, for all of us. 🚀
website: https://dansup.com
pixelfed: https://pixelfed.org
loops: https://joinloops.org
fedidb: https://fedidb.com
Joined: 2026-04-26 04:10:16
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dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-06-06 22:31:36)
You, the people, and NLnet, have funded a fully open TikTok alternative with web and mobile clients, ActivityPub federation and an opt-out For You feed algorithm that is privacy friendly.
Anyone can start their own Loops community, and we're working on an official hosting service to help fund development.
Join 🚀: https://joinloops.org/join-the-beta
Roadmap ✨: https://joinloops.org/roadmap
Donate 🙏: https://joinloops.org/donate
Source 🤖: http://github.com/joinloops
#Loops #TikTok #ActivityPub
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-06-06 22:17:49)
What if
dansup@loops.video
could be
@dansup.com
Bring your own domain to Loops, migrate your full account across Loops servers.
It's coming. Funded by @nlnet ❤️
https://joinloops.org/roadmap
#Loops #BringYourOwnDomain #FullAccountMigration
Reply to @grishka@mastodon.social
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-06-06 20:52:04)
@grishka mmmmm smell-o-vision
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-06-06 20:06:20)
Introducing Loops for Developers ✨
https://joinloops.org/developers
#Loops #Developers #LoopsAPI
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-06-02 10:47:58)
FediDB.com and fediverse.info are being shutdown to help reduce our hosting costs.
Reply to @evan@cosocial.ca
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-29 09:38:49)
@evan Yeah that is true, the reason why tags.pub isn't appearing is because it triggered our stats filter (used to detect and auto remove instances with sudden large increases in stats), and a few other small things, I'm working on it now!
Reply to @evan@cosocial.ca
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-29 07:38:30)
@evan I’m looking into this!
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-26 01:00:18)
New blog post!
https://blog.joinloops.org/loops-beta-12-is-here/
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-25 23:27:34)
Loops profiles have been redesigned!
- New Account Details modal
- Staff badge for admins
- Profile Links take up less space on mobile (with the +3)
- Playlists are now displayed on mobile
- Buttons are more rounded because they look better
Now available!
See for yourself: https://loops.video/@dansup
#Loops
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dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-25 20:56:42)
New Loops Release ✨
Analytics + Starter Kits + Push Notifications + Embeds + Multi-Account Auth + Content Settings + Gif Keyboard + Playlists + Sign in with Apple and much more 🔥
Enjoy 😎
https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.11
#Loops #NewLoopsRelease
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-23 18:56:12)
Kudos to @Chocobozzz for their prompt response to the PeerTube bug, they just tagged a new release!
We are very lucky to have such talented and responsive developers behind fediverse projects.
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v8.1.8
Wanna support PeerTube?
https://joinpeertube.org/contribute
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-23 18:45:13)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116623229060393205
Isn't the Loops webUI beautiful?
I spent so much time learning tailwind and vue 3 to build this from scratch after I got home from FediCon last August.
From the mobile first layout, to the webcodec powered transcoder, it's a very feature packed experience that aims to be feature complete with our mobile app.
#Loops #UI #UX #Tailwind #Vue
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-20 23:08:34)
Loops Roadmap ⚡️
https://joinloops.org/roadmap
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-20 22:59:45)
Loops is the privacy focused alternative to TikTok, a fully self-hostable + ActivityPub federated platform.
A few highlights:
- Starter Kits: https://joinloops.org/starter-kits
- Embeds: https://dansup.github.io/loops-embed-demo/
- Atom feeds: https://loops.video/feeds/1.atom
Learn more: https://joinloops.org/why-loops-matters
#Loops #TikTok
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-19 00:47:24)
Dansup + FediCon + Keynote ✨
I'm thrilled to announce that I will be giving a keynote at FediCon for the second year in a row!
I'm so honoured to have this opportunity again, special thanks to @reiver
More details soon!
#FediCon #FediCon2026 #FediCon26
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-17 13:36:59)
Ticket and Hotel rooms booked for #FediCon2026
So excited!!! Who else is attending ???
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-16 22:59:54)
When it comes to ActivityPub c2s (client-to-server), I understand why it's unpopular and not widely supported.
Mastodon and Loops have wildly different APIs, and it would make no sense to try to adapt c2s for these platforms because then you have to duplicate validation and other logic, and for what?
The 2 people who actually use this?
A unified ActivityPub API for s2s would only work if every implementation handled every schema the same way, and again, difficult to get done.
s2s for the win
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-16 22:43:13)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116584530249703838
The open nature of fediverse platforms should be more celebrated.
Twitter, Reddit, Instagram and many more platforms closed off API access, and shut out 3rd party developers to monetize every available surface.
Meanwhile, the fediverse is thriving with app developers creating experiences outside of official apps, and everyone loves that.
That is freedom.
We can't take it for granted.
❤️
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-16 19:50:19)
I've been working on improving Loops federation in preparation to reuse it and it's powerful builder/handler/validation pattern for Pixelfed!
This will solve many federation issues in Pixelfed, like missing comment threading, mentions, blocks and unblocks and much more.
Then I will abstract it into a reusable Laravel package, so any laravel project can easily add federation support in minutes
I also submitted a NLnet grant application for this 🤞
https://github.com/dansup/laravel-activitypub
#ActivityPub #Laravel
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-15 11:55:49)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@rabble/116575400224924740
Loops is open source and federated with ActivityPub, not sure how it could be more open or decentralized lol
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-10 19:17:11)
I spent 7 years working on Pixelfed almost every day, and in the past 18 months we've went from 200k users to over 1 million!
Some could argue the break after FediCon to build Loops was a mistake, but the fediverse needed a solid short video platform and I didn't want to force that on Pixelfed.
Now this summer belongs to Pixelfed.
Stay tuned, I want to improve the web and mobile apps for the next million or ten million new Pixelfed members 🚀
#Pixelfed
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-10 19:11:13)
Love the feeling of working on Pixelfed again after taking a break to build Loops.
The community on Pixelfed is straight up goals, so many vibrant photographers from around the world sharing moments we love to see.
The lack of influencers is refreshing.
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-08 05:36:55)
Glad to see Mastodon is rolling out Collections, Loops is working on finalizing ActivityPub support so you can add Mastodon accounts to Loops Starter Kits and Loops accounts to Mastodon Collections ✨
#Loops #StarterKits #MastodonCollections
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dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-04 19:39:03)
I made a lot of progress on the new Pixelfed UI this past weekend, and I can't wait to ship it so you can see how amazing :pixelfed: can be with a modern design and more stable backend/federation 😉
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-02 19:38:13)
I'm in awe of the continued support I have for my fediverse projects (Pixelfed, Loops, FediDB, Fediverse.info + more)
I was feeling pretty bad a few days ago and questioning everything due to financial difficulties, but you reminded me how important these open and ethical alternatives are, and a few of you donated and it means the world to me.
Thank you ❤️
I will continue building to make the social web a better place.
🙏
https://joinloops.org/donate
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-05-02 17:26:33)
I've been so busy building Pixelfed and Loops that I didn't realize how overprovisioned and expensive our hosting costs have become.
I've exhausted the Kickstarter funds on hosting, paying our team and myself to work full time on Loops and Pixelfed over the past year.
I could really use your financial support 🙏
https://joinloops.org/donate
I've also built and shipped:
- https://fediverse.info
- https://fedidb.com
- https://respectfulplatforms.org
- https://socialweb.network
- https://madeincanada.social
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2026-04-25 23:17:20)
full account migration could leverage a trusted third party service that simply serves authorization attestation (also for in the event the origin becomes unavailable), allowing remote servers to simply rewrite data/relations without having to delete and refetch.
ap devs: let's chat about this, I'm already building this for Loops and Pixelfed
#fullAccountMigration #ActivityPub
dansup@dansup@mastodon.social (2018-05-26 13:38:38)
You know whats awesome about the fediverse?
Developers working together. This isn't a competition. Everyone wins.