Loops is only two months old at this point. As far as I know it’s still just Daniel Supernault doing all the work.
@dansup@mastodon.social is the best source for updates currently.

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I’ve always been confused by people who insist on the All feed, then come here complaining “No, not like that!”

Until someone on your instance subscribes to a community on another instance, yours won’t have any info about it. So it won’t come up in search results.

You can run a search for a specific community if you know and enter it’s exact name and instance. You might have to do the search twice. Once to tell your instance to look for it. A second time to see if it found it.

The place to find those specific community names and instances, is here

The Quick Settings toggles are the simplest option.

Where is the up-to-date version?

Yes that’s correct.

All has posts from all the communities the members on that instance subscribe to.

Firefox regular does that. There’s a setting to clear history on close. Then it adds a quit button to the menu. You can pick how much is deleted. History, cookies and anything else.

The filters and music are certainly doable.
I’m not sure the endless scrolling is something that should be emulated.

keeping the main repo full of abandonware isn’t a good idea and will hold fdroid back on being a good app store.

That’s the only thing you wrote that sounds like a reason. It’s really just a speculative assertion.

That’s not to say you’re wrong! I actually do agree with you. In the long term. When their are millions of abandoned apps, and the main repo is hundreds of megabytes, and take several min to update each time, that would be a real problem. Yes. Pruning would be advantageous; And quite trivial to implement. Today though? It’s hardly the most pressing issue to F-Droid adoption. But sure why not.

It’s only mostly broken. And mostly broken means slightly working!

Lemmy has it (or did) already. Some instances use it, many don’t.

As I said, I agree with the literal facts. The implications in your phrasing I disagree with.

Instead of unfounded, I would call it unproven.
Instead of scaremongering I would say warning.
And generally I avoid using absolute terms like “all”, since only it takes one counter example, to make such a statement factually wrong.

Yes! That is most literally true!

People doubt the face value benign intension of Meta with regard to the Fediverse.

Which leaves uncertainty of their real intention.

Naturally causing fear of a self interested malicious intention.

Which all seem to be quite reasonable concerns, given Meta’s market position and history.

Anything posted to “Social Media” in any way, I consider public. If you want privacy, you need something that’s directly one to one at least, ideally E2EE.

AccuBattery

I’ve never heard of anything that offers secure messaging like Signal, and insecure SMS.

But there are lots of SMS apps that can be used along with Signal. No need for them to be the same app.

It depends on the details.
What exactly does “tags” mean here?

Are we talking about unrestricted hashtags that can be added to any post or comment? Hard pass.

Kinds of flags or categories that can be created by mods, and used by members, to identify certain kinds of posts in a community? That would be a great idea. Things can be labeled as [meme] [serious] [question] [advice] [discussion] [rant] [whatever works for that specific community].