Current nixos user and it seems to me to have stabilized a good bit. I know that the nixos foundation held their first elections for the steering community. Also they recently released their new stable 24.11 version that seemed to go smoothly.
It is not back to where it was in terms of dev trust but there is good progress, and my software still gets updated so I have stuck with it
Loops is new and still in beta. The dev has said that he wants to wait to open source it until he feels it’s current state is ready to be on other people’s servers (once it reaches 1.0). I can’t say I agree with the thought process but at least with pixelfed he did the same process and actually followed through on federation and open sourcing