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Pixelfed & Loops Kickstarter Campaign Just Launched (www.kickstarter.com)
submitted 9 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/37686963

To celebrate the release of the Pixelfed Mobile app going live on the Apple App Store & Google Play Store, we’re proud to be launching our first Kickstarter campaign. All funds raised will go toward continued development and support of the core Pixelfed Foundation applications and the ActivityPub ecosystem at large.

The Pixelfed Team builds open source and ethical social networks for the masses. We aim to be the first Fediverse app with a billion people by taking on the worlds biggest players using open source standards. Designed and built for a better society, to bring us closer together without tracking or surveillance.

Edit: They're already at 95% of their funding goal!

Get on it!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

I was excited about this earlier today until I learned the creator of pixelfed is shit talking other fediverse developers and has an ego. Now I don’t feel like donating

[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Hopefully this money will allow that ONE DUDE to get some help in managing these apps. I know he has maybe a couple of collaborators now, but maybe they can get some more dedicated people to build out the apps. It's a lot for one or two people to try and spin up two apps at once.

The Pixelfed app that dropped last week, for example, doesn't even have a button to view the global feed. It's better to just use the main website of whatever server you are on right now, even on your mobile device.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Yeah. I think a lot of federated services are struggling with the idea that they need to build a system to handle the growth, not just treat it like a personal project.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Just $500 from their funding goal! 🎉

Edit: goal met!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I have a feeling this is going to be a big one! Just did my part. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=thanks-copy

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

If they can deliver. But hey, we're the VCs now. Not everything succeeds.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

Pixelfed has been live for a while and Loops is in beta.

For my invite the other and whole not as fully featured as some corp owned short form video apps, it looks good & has multiple things over the others

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago

They also have Liberapay, OpenCollective and Patreon:

https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

Pubkit.net looks quite useful. I may be testing that out soon.