That’s funny because it’s not difficult at all to build an app like this. The value in buying such a business would be the scale of its user base, which is likely only several thousand at this point. And, if it were sold, most people would leave since most of those users are just dipping a toe in at this point to see what the app is like. Frankly, the content sucks. People are using this app out of goodwill and an interest in helping to build an alternative to the corpo apps. If dansup sells or does not open source, then that goodwill evaporates.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Agreed. I am downloading and occasionally checking out some of the content on all of these apps like Loops or Pixelfed because I’d like to see them succeed. I’m not a content generator, but I hope having accounts on and viewing these services helps somewhat.

E:typo

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not a content creator, but I recently went on vacation and put my best stuff up.

Without the algo, everything just gets lost to time. When I put a few things up, they faired well, but once they were out of the front seat, ( a day or so ) they were never seen again.

Where I post a couple nice things on bluesky, I get reverberations for days.

[–] NudeNewt@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago

This seems to be the main issues with his apps. Visibility is scarce beyond the original post, wherein even with followers the chances of someone seeing your post beyond that honeymoon phase dwindles.

The only exception are users with lots of followers. From what I've seen in my brief time using Pixelfed for example, it's usually accounts with at least a few hundred followers that see a highet retention of visibility.

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