The Loops
Observatory

Infrastructure for the Loops fediverse ecosystem — tracking software versions across the network and powering open discovery of Starter Kits.

This is an official Loops service. Verify on joinloops.org →

What is Loops?

Operational

Version Beacon

Queries GitHub for the latest Loops server release, caches the result, and serves a lightweight payload so Loops instances can surface update notifications to their admins without hammering the GitHub API directly.

Starter Kit Observatory

A federated discovery layer for Loops Starter Kits. Instances submit their FeaturedCollection objects here for validation against the ActivityPub schema — discoverable kits are indexed and made available to the wider fediverse.

What the Observatory validates

@context
ActivityStreams 2.0
type
FeaturedCollection
id
Activity URI
attributedTo
Actor URL
discoverable
Must be true
topic
Hashtag object
url
Kit HTML url
orderedItems
FeaturedItem list