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.
Just $500 from their funding goal! 🎉
Edit: goal met!
I have a feeling this is going to be a big one! Just did my part. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=thanks-copy
They also have Liberapay, OpenCollective and Patreon:
I was excited about this earlier today until I learned the creator of pixelfed is shit talking other fediverse developers and has an ego. Now I don’t feel like donating
Last I checked Loops required users to completely sign away every imaginable right to the content they posted. Unless that's changed I'm not too thrilled with them.
This shows how unfair the tech landscape is. The Kickstarter is currently at 45000$. Meta & Co generate that in seconds through their advertising or some billionaire gains that through investments in under a second.
Not sure I understand the motivation for an ActivityPub messenger like sup. Seems like XMPP and Matrix already take care of the federated messenger space.
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