Pixelfed has reached its Kickstarter Goal in Just 13 Hours

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Blaze (he/him)

Let's hope it delivers

technomad

Wow, that's incredible!

Fizz

awesome. I think this will really motivate people moving over to stay for a bit.

shittydwarf

Anyone recommend a server?

Atelopus-zeteki

I'm using Social.photo, tho' I have no specific criteria, tho' it has the distinct advantage that it is still up and running.

jgrim

I'm the admin of social.photo. Thanks for joining! Lemme know if you have any questions or issues!

Atelopus-zeteki

Thanks for ALL you do!!

299792458ms [OP] , edited

I would not know really, but there is a a new one hosted by the Pixelix Client creator. He shared it somewhere in his mastodon account.

haverholm

Probably pixelix.social? The app website is app.pixelix.social 😉

[deleted]

Pxlmo.com seems good

garretble

The people there seem pretty chill in my experience so far.

Lurker

Pixey.org

Cool_Name

Cool, but it the more learn the more I find that I'd rather Dansup wasn't becoming the darling of the fediverse.

Quicky

Yeah he’s definitely up himself, and highly prone to preschool outbursts on Mastodon. No doubt he deserves plaudits for ambition and talent, but a bit more humility and grace would do him good. I’ve cringed at a few of his (often retrospectively deleted) posts unnecessarily slagging off other devs.

That said, I’m extremely grateful for what he’s trying to do, and his genuine desire to expand the fediverse.

HobbitFoot

I feel like Mastodon is the only one who did things right.

Blaze (he/him)

Isn't Gargron regularly criticized by the community for refusing to deliver some features?

HobbitFoot

And he has turned over Mastodon to a non-profit company which should be able to gain more resources to develop Mastodon.

lambalicious

You're free to start delivering code and release of your own! Dansup is walking, most of everyone else is talking.

haverholm

Dansup is walking

Looks more like he's juggling projects while riding a unicycle, and doing insult comedy at the same time. I think it's fair to question the sustainability of this, and if/when he'll publically self destruct.

Chozo

Dansup is walking, most of everyone else is talking.

Isn't that because Dan hasn't open-sourced his project yet and doesn't let anybody else contribute?

Arcka

Isn't that because Dan hasn't open-sourced his project yet

Wrong: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/blob/dev/LICENSE

and doesn't let anybody else contribute?

Hmm, while there have been 158 contributors, a very small percent were from the other developers: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/graphs/contributors

This information is pretty easy to look up.

Chozo

I meant the Loops side of things, my bad.

lambalicious

Of course it is, but then again: it's because everyone else is talking. *No one* stops everyone else from starting their own project and overtaking his by sheer power of community. Until that happens, one man would have to suffice.

GrumpyDuckling

From what I read he's the sole dev on three different large projects and ignoring issue requests.

TheTechnician27

Issue requests or pull requests?

GrumpyDuckling , edited

Fuck if i know

breadcat

well if you read it it ought to be true

lambalicious

Well then, get working on the competition.

GrumpyDuckling

Opens a local pub, check m8

tisktisk

what's this mean? darling is a nothing word I thought? (Not best english)

Quicky

It means the dev can be a bit of a dick, and it’s not always a great look. “Darling” in this instance means “face of” or “icon”.

tisktisk

Who isn't from time to time? We're in a era of sensitivity either way

Quicky , edited

I suppose, but he did start name-calling just because another developer had the audacity to start building their own fediverse photo sharing platform (Vernissage). Then apologised and removed the toot.

Bearing in mind the other developer also actually built a functioning and rather excellent third party Pixelfed app (Impressia) that he wrote because he got frustrated with the lack of development on the official Pixelfed app, and which was available on app stores years earlier, it seemed beyond unnecessary.

Weirdo

Jeffool , edited

FYI "darling" can also be used with a spouse or romantic partner. Your husband or girlfriend can be your "darling" just like "honey" or "baby". It has a similar meaning in this case, where "darling of the group" means everyone really likes them, even if not sexual/romantic.

And this use, "darling of the __", is a slightly older, but relatively common, saying.

MolecularCactus1324

Why?

AItoothbrush

Why is it so inactive? I made an account and there are barely any posts or activity.

Free_Opinions

I moved from Instagram to Pixelfed around a year ago and went from barely anyone seeing my photography to literally no one seeing it.

Cheems

I get likes on cat pictures and that's it. The likes always seem to come after I go to bed so I assume somewhere else in the world is where the exposure is coming from

nasi_goreng

They don't have proper "trending" page, that's why it seems barren.

At least on Pixelfed.social, there are a lot of active photographers, both casuals and professional posting their work there.

299792458ms [OP]

Agree with this one