Pixelfed Smashes Kickstarter Campaign Goal on Day One
Pixelfed Smashes Kickstarter Campaign Goal on Day One
After years of hardcore development, the Pixelfed project is taking a big next step by seeking crowdfunding dollars on Kickstarter.
Pixelfed has been making incredible strides over the past few years, and has begun developing a suite of different platforms and services for the #Fediverse. After just one day on Kickstarter, they've already smashed their campaign goal.
But they still need your help!
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I love pixelfed,I don't love the developer......this isn't going to do his already huge ego Amy favours
It's helpful to be able to appreciate art without worrying too much about the artist. In history the number of genius artists who were bad people - it's basically off the scale.
This isn't art, it's a platform, it's a tool more akin to engineering than painting.
Would you have this same response for x, Facebook, or truth social?
I think in terms of fedi, it's fine. I mean plenty of people think Linus Torvold is an Ass, but we all love Linux for what it is.
the difference is the level of control
X and Facebook are closed source, so you can't review them and they could be hiding stuff in their code or just do things people don't like and we can't revert
they also control the servers and don't let you self host, so they can make bad admin decisions and there's nothing we can do
and they also horde the content so you can't get it from somewhere else, which means you can't just leave and use a different platform (not easily at least)
over here if you don't like the devs then you don't need to donate to them, you don't need to use their instance, or we can fork their code, or even use an alternative (like Mbin vs Lemmy)
It's a fair point. But then in the case of a piece of (literal) art created by a computer program, who was the artist if not the programmer? In legal terms software is a work of creativity like any other.
Perhaps the important factor is how many people are involved. To be art, there has to be a single artist.
What?
So if two people work together on a painting, its not art?
Edge case! Maybe? Or a Beatles song written by John and Paul.
he's not even a bad guy he just gets a big head sometimes
Hers a list of Fedi based projects where parople have said the same thing
- Mastodon
- Lemmy
- GotoSocial
- Bookwyhrm
Then step outside that
- Linux
- GNU
Then stuff like
- Meta
- Microsoft
- Apple
- Oracle
- AI
Do anything and some people will dislike you. I save my loathing for the commercial projects and the inevitable enshitiftacion of the internet that they necessarily add to.