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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.
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poldemo
in reply to pixelfed • • •Rury
in reply to pixelfed • • •Helga Numberger
in reply to pixelfed • • •Marcus Richter
in reply to pixelfed • • •Mikaleb
in reply to pixelfed • • •El Duvelle
in reply to Mikaleb • • •@pixelfed
Adrian
in reply to El Duvelle • • •El Duvelle
in reply to Adrian • • •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
Aphrodite ☑️ :boost_ok:
in reply to Adrian • • •@acs @elduvelle @Mikaleb
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.
Mikaleb
in reply to Aphrodite ☑️ :boost_ok: • • •Aphrodite ☑️ :boost_ok:
in reply to Mikaleb • • •@Mikaleb @acs @elduvelle
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.
Mikaleb
in reply to Aphrodite ☑️ :boost_ok: • • •El Duvelle
in reply to Mikaleb • • •@Mikaleb Nobody said those who can't pay are excluded... You pay if you can
@Aphrodite @acs @pixelfed
@pineywoozle (s) for HARRIS
in reply to El Duvelle • • •Rafa Font 🌻 🇪🇺 🏀
in reply to pixelfed • • •Mark C. Hunter (VO1BS/VO1MCH)
in reply to pixelfed • • •where are your servers physically located?
Edit1: Let me rephrase, where is the pixelfed.social server located?
Edit2: Where are all the servers listed here pixelfed.org/servers physically located?
Edit3: Traceroute command seems to give me the last IP address for the route to pixelfed.social being in California and the last IP address for pixelfed.de, being, naturally, in Germany.
Pixelfed Server Directory
PixelfedSixtyforce
in reply to pixelfed • • •notsoloud
in reply to pixelfed • • •MntyFrsh
in reply to pixelfed • • •matidmgdef
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in reply to pixelfed • • •Andrzej Lichnerowicz
in reply to pixelfed • • •John Breen
in reply to pixelfed • • •But I do look forward to trying out and supporting pixelfed !
silentsnake09
in reply to pixelfed • • •RejZoR
in reply to pixelfed • • •The Dude™
in reply to pixelfed • • •KeepYourselfSafe
in reply to pixelfed • • •Aphrodite ☑️ :boost_ok:
in reply to pixelfed • • •Name and shame.
They want to operate in the shadows. Force sunlight upon them.
John Mierau
in reply to pixelfed • • •please tell me more about the Pixelfed Foundation.
Where can I find info about its bylaws, members?
Son Link :firedoge: 🐧
in reply to pixelfed • • •Scratchy
in reply to pixelfed • • •EW.
Does anyone remember "Freehand" illustration software. No. Adobe bought it and put it in a closet.
#enshittification
#FreeMarket
#GOPValues
wraptile
in reply to pixelfed • • •Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )
in reply to pixelfed • • •TeacherTom
in reply to pixelfed • • •I just signed up for the Kickstarter notification.
Also, thank you for fixing my Loops login problem. :)
kel
in reply to pixelfed • • •stux⚡
in reply to pixelfed • • •Funny how they keep trying huh!
I started ignoring those mails a long time ago 💪
drsilas
in reply to pixelfed • • •Rodolfo Berrios
in reply to pixelfed • • •AskPippa🇨🇦
in reply to pixelfed • • •Kenneth M Sweeney
in reply to pixelfed • • •S. D. aka "Sabri"
in reply to pixelfed • • •Greg Johnston
in reply to pixelfed • • •David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
in reply to pixelfed • • •anonymouspl
in reply to pixelfed • • •nev
in reply to pixelfed • • •Sensitive content
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 (social.besties.house/@h/113730…) 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 (@h@besties.house)
besties.houseJeremy Robert Bell
in reply to pixelfed • • •Mastodon Migration
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