Augmented Reality filters are coming to the fediverse, first with Loops and soon Pixelfed!
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@dansup I'm very impressed by your resilience, that you are still building, while with every feature you ship, some "guardians of the fediverse" feel the urge to tell you what to do and what not. And I heavily assume most of them don't even use pixelfed or loops.
@dansup Brilliant use of programmers' time. The really important stuff.
@dansup Please let me know when I can get my Hoffman lenses, thx https://jwz.org/b/ykxj
@jwz haha, I'll see what I can do!
@dansup Would be awesome if there was a way to make the AR filters modular, there could be a plugin ecosystem for devs to make their own filters for Loops!
@baralheia Yes, that is my plan!
@dansup Is this more important than the new UI?
@sturmsucht This is the last remaining milestone for the Loops grant that expires on March 1st, so I'd say yes.
@dansup thanks for the transparency
@kdekooter People like them?
@dansup Uninformed people all over the world may like to vote for fascists. Should we do it anyway?
Yes, it's a bad comparison. But in my opinion, it illustrates well why you shouldn't do everything that people like.
@kdekooter
@moralapostel @dansup @kdekooter Are AR filters harmful by any mean (directly or not? This is a real question
@anatolegc Yes, in my opinion it does. It copies "trends" from addictive platforms. The Fediverse should strictly refuse to do this. What comes next? An algorithm?
@dansup @kdekooter
@moralapostel @anatolegc @kdekooter How is an AR filter harmful, when you don't need to even finish uploading the video to Loops, you can literally record a video then save it and share it to a specific person outside of Loops.
It's not that different from editing a photo and sharing it. That happens a lot. Where is the harm?
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