Pixelfed Smashes Kickstarter Campaign Goal on Day One - We Distribute
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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!

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
    5·
    20 hours ago

    I chipped in before it was at 20% and the emails about it hitting the next mark and the next were exhilarating! :)

  • T (they/she)@beehaw.org
    3·
    18 hours ago

    I decided not to keep supporting Pixelfed after the weird coments dansup was making about people developing other clients and his apparent wish of putting ads on the platform. I was already getting people from my circle to create accounts on it, so it was very disappointing.

    There’s also another whole situation with the way he speaks but that isn’t that much of an issue for me

  • toastal@lemmy.ml
    31·
    10 hours ago

    Good for them but copying the bad parts of Instagram like forcing squares, throwing out image metadata (including license & color profiles), & compressing to hell means it is not the kind of platform I would want to upload my images to.

    • Allero
      21·
      15 hours ago

      Without compression, every instance would have to deal with issues of free space, which is very sensitive when we talk about small servers ran on good will of the people.

      • toastal@lemmy.ml
        2·
        3 hours ago

        There is compression & then there is whatever mangling Instagram does. But these are things an admin should be able to tweak as the defaults are are just not good enough for photography. You can’t be stripping color profiles, forcing sRGB, & camera data for these contexts—not to mention just trying to get a crisp image. I wouldn’t be surprised if the were using WebP too 🤢

        • Allero
          2·
          10 hours ago

          Admin options would be cool - although this would exacerbate the issue of picking an I stance and then figuring out your pick was wrong for your purpose. Fediverse generally tries to avoid that.

  • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    1 day ago

    This is great to hear, dansup has been stretched across so many projects for so long so hopefully this really supercharges pixelfed (and friends) development and helps to increase the diversity of AP servers.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Gah. Sorry that it’s still happening, I’m not totally sure why it happens, beyond the server choking while federating. I’ll keep investigating. 😞