Actually loops is 5 years old, but it seemed to have a big overhaul in the past few months as in it actually going through development and the source code is actually being published.

Apparently the activitypub protocol was announced to be implemented in October of 2025. Which is kinda funny.

Also I did hop to different instances looking for users on across instances and yeah I could only find 1 out of half dozen I tried. So I'm sceptical on activitypub protocol integration. It could be that they aren't federated

I'm actually impressed that there is 8 instances because I didn't except there to be more than one this year

I help dansup with loops back in February and January. I put some pressure on him for answers and well he folded and basically blocked me, so I got the impression that he didn't have the temperament to develop loops, but I'm half wrong because well he did eventually make it open source.

Also dansup is getting paid, he asked for grants and ran a fundraiser specifically for loops, so it's not exactly "in their free time"