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
For anyone else who was thinking of starting an instance, local storage is still a no-go right now
To be fair, you can simply selfhost MinIO.
Yeah, I wouldn’t bother implementing local storage if I could easily roll a local S3 in the docker-compose.yaml.
Cloudflare provides 10 GB of free (forever) S3 compatible storage too.
Yeah but why would I make myself dependent on Cloudflare.
Yes
Good to know, thank you! I haven’t touched S3 storage yet in my self hosting journey
It’s an exciting world of file-to-object-to-file thunking. I’m surprised when it all works.