I’m not even convinced that Loops was a good idea to begin with. Yes, sure, always nice to have fediverse alternatives of mainstream apps, but short-form videos like those on Tiktok wouldn’t have been successful if not for Tiktoks algorithm which is much, much better than even any of the competition. It’s really good at discoverability and being addictive. And Loops doesn’t have anything like this (and even if this is good depending on who you ask, it definitely doesn’t give Loops an advantage). Who even is the target audience of Loops?

Mbin has better support for microblogs and Mastodon federation than Lemmy. I also prefer the default front-end of Mbin to Lemmy, but Lemmy has better alternative frontends and apps. I think it’s great to support Mbin as well.

I wish PeerTube was a reasonable alternative to YouTube but I have a hard time imagining it will ever be.