EmmeMarksJan 23, 2025
pixelfed

We've received more offers to acquire our platform/assets.

We belong to the people.

Our Kickstarter is launching soon, help us prove that we, the people, can build healthy and vibrant communities, without being controlled by vested interests who don't share our values.

Recent events have proved how vital these open and federated platforms are, help us continue building for the people.

Spread the word ✨

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks

Jan 21, 2025 at 7:38amWeb
Show threadpoldemoJan 21, 2025
@pixelfed Go, people, go! 😊👍🙏
Show threadRuryJan 21, 2025
@pixelfed how can I help? I will donate but I would like to also help with programming. Where are you guys at?
Show threadMathias MicheelJan 21, 2025
@rurywilliams @pixelfed https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed
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Show threadRuryJan 21, 2025
@buerviper @pixelfed thanks!
Show threadBlender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )Jan 21, 2025
@buerviper @rurywilliams @pixelfed A!!! GITHUB!!!
Show threadAgonioJan 21, 2025

@blenderdumbass @buerviper @rurywilliams @pixelfed actually I'm not even sure what the alternative would be... Gitlab would be ok but it's still a private company.

Git by email is always an option, but a less user friendly one

Show threadPedro FonsecaJan 22, 2025
@Agonio @blenderdumbass @buerviper @rurywilliams @pixelfed here's what @fedora did https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-chooses-forgejo/. Seems they had a lot of thought on it 😉
Fedora Chooses Forgejo! – Fedora Community Blog

The Fedora Council is pleased to announce that we have chosen Forgejo as the replacement for our git forge! That means you’ll see Forgejo powering our package sources (src.fedoraproject.org) as well as our general git forge (what pagure.io is today). It has been a long road to get here, and we cannot thank the Fedora […]

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Show threadPaulR 🐻‍❄️Jan 21, 2025
@rurywilliams @pixelfed https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed
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Show threadPhoenix Paulina SchmidJan 21, 2025
@rurywilliams @pixelfed The Pixelfed repos are here: https://github.com/pixelfed
PixelFed

Federated Image Sharing for everyone! PixelFed has 29 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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Show threadHelga Numberger 🐧Jan 21, 2025
@pixelfed Can't wait!
Show threadMarcus RichterJan 21, 2025
@pixelfed Is there a governance structure in place or will there be one in the near future? (Akin to the non-profit organization that is planned for Mastodon?)
Show threadMikalebJan 21, 2025
@pixelfed ads is not that bad if you don't get enough from ks
Show threadEl DuvelleJan 21, 2025
@Mikaleb Nobody, literally nobody wants ads
@pixelfed
Show threadAdrianJan 21, 2025
@elduvelle @Mikaleb @pixelfed that's true but everybody wants something for free. As long as ads aren't using mined meta data I find them a tolerable alternative to subscriptions.
Show threadEl DuvelleJan 21, 2025

@acs Maybe, but again, nobody here wants ads. The clearest advantage of this place over all the for-profit ones is that it has no ads and I hope it stays like that for ever.

Also, it's not that we need ads, there are other ways to support our instances, like donations, contributing some time, funding by grants or other no-strings-attached sources.

The attention-sucking, consumerist, privacy-invading ad system that people are getting so used to is not the only way to go!

@Mikaleb
@pixelfed

Show threadAphrodite (recharging)Jan 21, 2025

@acs @elduvelle @Mikaleb @pixelfed

So you won’t kick in say $5 to keep the place free from the fast track to fascistic influence?

Advertising is built on the same foundation as propaganda. And the propagandists have been exploiting that infra for decades.

Show threadMikalebJan 21, 2025
@Aphrodite @acs @elduvelle @pixelfed making the platform non free is a tad antidémocratic don't you think?
Show threadAphrodite (recharging)Jan 21, 2025

@Mikaleb @acs @elduvelle @pixelfed

I support my admins.

I chip in €20 every few months to help with ops and upkeep.

Not everyone does.

Not everyone is expected to.

That’s democratic.

If next week I were to kick in €10k, I would be doing so only to help those who can’t contribute to the care and feeding of my instance. That’s democratic.

If I kicked in €10k so that my voice would be amplified and so that I could control what others see, that’s authoritarian.

Show threadMikalebJan 21, 2025
@Aphrodite @acs @elduvelle @pixelfed but if you exclude de facto people who can't pay, you eliminate their voice. That's why my original take was that if participating is not enough, random ads can be good enough, solving the funding problem and the targeted ads
Show threadEl DuvelleJan 21, 2025

@Mikaleb Nobody said those who can't pay are excluded... You pay if you can

@Aphrodite @acs @pixelfed

Show threadAphrodite (recharging)Jan 21, 2025

@Mikaleb @acs @elduvelle @pixelfed

Where did I say that anyone was excluded?

Don’t put words in my mouth. And don’t read words that aren’t there.

Show threadEaterOfSnacksJan 21, 2025
@Mikaleb @Aphrodite @acs @elduvelle @pixelfed I can't pay at the moment and nobody makes me feel excluded. I'll pay when I can.
Show threadAphrodite (recharging)Jan 21, 2025

@Mikaleb @acs @elduvelle @pixelfed

“If” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Show threadSpark Purcell (they/them)Jan 22, 2025
@Mikaleb @Aphrodite @acs @elduvelle @pixelfed no one turned away for lack of funds should apply everywhere. And nobody wants ads.
Show thread@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNoteJan 21, 2025
@elduvelle Some of us don’t care as long as the app can’t be sold. @Mikaleb @pixelfed
Show threadRafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀Jan 21, 2025
@pixelfed
Show threadSixtyJan 21, 2025
@pixelfed Be cool for Edmonton to be known for something again. *looks at Bioware* ...uh, something good.
Show threadFarticle Accelerator🇨🇦Jan 21, 2025
@Sixtyforces @pixelfed I thought @dansup was in Grand Prairie‽
Show threadnotsoloudJan 21, 2025
@pixelfed
More to the point, even if you sold out, the network would go on without you.
Show threadMntyFrsh 🐘Jan 21, 2025
@pixelfed I wonder if these people or companies who keep trying to acquire Pixelfed realize that they could just create their own Pixelfed server.
Show threadBrother SoulJan 21, 2025
@mntyfrsh @pixelfed 😂 😆 😜 💙 👊🏾 📻
Show threadJürgen HubertJan 21, 2025

@mntyfrsh @pixelfed

Yes, but if they only own a particular instance, then how could they do a proper #Enshittification cycle for this whole product? 🧐

Show threadMntyFrsh 🐘Jan 21, 2025
@juergen_hubert ha, good point!
Show threadmatidmgdefJan 21, 2025
@pixelfed At the end you need to find a way to monetize it to wrap it up around a reliable organisation. Sorry not to be deluded
Show threadVivvy50sJan 21, 2025
@pixelfed is there a guide for pixelfed for the non-tech savvy? On eg how to choose instance?
Show threadJonas R. (er/ihm)Jan 21, 2025

@Vivvy50s
Choose an instance with moderations rules that suit you; maybe also with a main language that you understand. If you're looking for a pixelfed server dedicated to specific topics (art or adult stuff), there aren't many so far, AFAIK.
https://pixelfed.org/servers

#FediHelp #FediTips #Pixelfed

@pixelfed

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Show threadChewieJan 22, 2025

@Vivvy50s @pixelfed

There's a shortlist of categories here: https://pixelfed.org/servers which might help.

It kinda depends on what sort of pictures you are looking for

Pixelfed Server Directory

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Show threadJohn BreenJan 21, 2025
@pixelfed Let's work on that kickstarter/Mastodon integration. From a browser, I clicked the link, wanted to be notified when the kickstarter opens, and it asks me if I want to login with Google or Apple or email 😭
But I do look forward to trying out and supporting pixelfed !
Show threadsilentsnake09Jan 21, 2025
@pixelfed Great news! Let’s also get a dark them for iOS app!
Show threadRejZoRJan 21, 2025
@pixelfed You can tell them they can sponsor things by donating.
Show threadAphrodite (recharging)Jan 21, 2025

@pixelfed

Name and shame.

They want to operate in the shadows. Force sunlight upon them.

Show threadJohn MierauJan 21, 2025

@pixelfed please tell me more about the Pixelfed Foundation.

Where can I find info about its bylaws, members?

Show threadSon Link  🐧Jan 21, 2025
@pixelfed 🎶 Peaple have the power, Peaple have the paaaweer....🎶
Show threadBlender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )Jan 21, 2025
@pixelfed Kickstarted though is proprietary. SOMEBODY MAKE A #FEDIVERSE KICKSTARTED be fully LIBRE.
Show threadwraptileJan 21, 2025
@pixelfed excited to back the kickstarter and I hope people put their money where their mouth Is for once 😤
Show threadBlender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )Jan 21, 2025
@pixelfed Petitions? As in reverse crowd funding? As in, you know, this: blenderdumbass.org/petitions
Show threadstux⚡️Jan 21, 2025

@pixelfed Funny how they keep trying huh!  

I started ignoring those mails a long time ago 💪

Show threadsenna.apkJan 21, 2025
@pixelfed what will the money be used to do, other than pay for infrastructure? Is there a plan to fund work on specific features? What about paying other people to work on the project? The kickstarter page doesn't offer any insight to these questions.
Show threaddrsilasJan 21, 2025
@pixelfed good
Show threadRodolfo BerriosJan 21, 2025
@pixelfed Got about 4 buy offers per year, you will get used.
Show threadAskPippa🇨🇦Jan 21, 2025
@pixelfed Would there be an advantage or protection if you registered it (or part of it) as a non-prof? Just wondering, I don't know.
Show threadScott M. StolzJan 21, 2025
@AskPippa🇨🇦
Would there be an advantage or protection if you registered it (or part of it) as a non-prof? Just wondering, I don't know.
Non-profit would not matter, except for issues of taxation. Instead, many organizations place restrictions within the Charter or Articles of Incorporation or Articles of Association or Article of Organization. These restrictions prohibit certain behaviors and activities. Also, many organization prohibit the sale of the organization and its assets to another organization that does not have the same restrictions. That way the board can't sell off the assets to avoid the restrictions.

@AskPippa🇨🇦 @Daniel Supernault
Show threadKen M SweeneyJan 21, 2025
@pixelfed I downloaded the app and registered but when I try to login I get this message. Also, there are so many servers, which one do I choose?
Show threadJo (she/they)Jan 22, 2025
@TheComfortableSpotPodcast Whichever one you want, just like the other platforms in the Fediverse. Pixelfed social is the flagship server. I chose Pixelfed AU, run by the same folks that run the aus dot social Mastodon instance, because I'm an Aussie and wanted a local feed that's predominantly in my country. @pixelfed
Show threadS. D. aka "Sabri"Jan 21, 2025
@pixelfed Are there any other ways to donate besides Kickstarter? just wondering! i love the platform and want to support :)
Show threadEstarriol, Terrorist DragonJan 21, 2025
@pixelfed they are worried you are gaining traction and costing them customers. watch for an avalanch of dcma takedown notices on no grounds but the hope you cannot afford to risk fighting them.
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Jan 21, 2025
@pixelfed Have you considered creating a limited company that doesn't own anything of value but looks as if it does, getting half a billion in VC money, donating it all to the Pixelfed Foundation, and then having the LLC declare bankruptcy?
Show threadnevJan 21, 2025

just a quick reminder to anyone seeing this that it's been less than a month since the lead dev used the official account to boost his long, cringily appropriated-Black-American-English, now deleted trying-to-be-a-"they-can't-keep-us-down"-rap-song rant (he is neither American nor Black) apparently relating to a dispute about potential in-app ads with a sometime contributor (https://social.besties.house/@h/113730903264902154) who is like, 18? also did not react well to being (gently) called out (by another fedi dev, not some random) about said language use. and probably less than a month before he was Not Making Friends by being all like "i'm progressive BUT fuck the postal strike" (you haven't heard about it because it was in canada sorry)

so personally i would hold off on any significant public or financial support for pixelfed until the project gets some actual governance where it's not just one emotionally immature guy having the keys???

also just in case this is relevant everyone involved is extremely queer and gay. him, the devs, me.

#FediMeta

hazel (@[email protected])

spent a significant amount of time working on a loops client and was offered a position maintaining the official one, and am now blocked from all contact from loops’s developer over my position against in-app ads. **please donate to me for the lost hours if you can** :) https://ko-fi.com/hazy https://liberapay.com/hazy https://github.com/sponsors/hazycora

besties.house
Show threadGeorgiana BrummellJan 21, 2025
@nev Bad English is just that, no matter who uses it.
Show threadJ. Bell Jan 22, 2025
@pixelfed If you need to, I’d rather have ads than corporate ownership and an unfederated platform. Just please no tracking/targeting. Let us choose our ad categories.