Hmm. Yeah, sometimes when a new platform is positioned as “an alternative to [corporate] platform”, users of the service aggressively bring that culture with them even if the design is somewhat different. That’s kind of how I feel about Bluesky (and maybe I’m being unfair, since that has algos too which may subtly manipulate behaviour without you realising, so maybe it still is part of their design), but I didn’t want to be on something else where people are replicating bad patterns and desperate for engagement at the expense of everything else (or just “going where the majority goes”). I do bridge my account though and try to entice people to the federated side. I hope Loops attracts people doing interesting projects who’ve perhaps had enough of Instagram rather than those looking to faithfully replace it, if that makes sense.
I did see as well the dev getting annoyed at a comment about security and I can understand that it must be frustrating having put loads of effort into something and seeing things being picked apart, but again, maybe that’s because previous social platforms have conditioned us all to read things as if we’re constantly gearing up for an argument.