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Pixelfed & Loops Kickstarter Campaign Just Launched (www.kickstarter.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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To celebrate the release of the Pixelfed Mobile app going live on the Apple App Store & Google Play Store, we’re proud to be launching our first Kickstarter campaign. All funds raised will go toward continued development and support of the core Pixelfed Foundation applications and the ActivityPub ecosystem at large.

The Pixelfed Team builds open source and ethical social networks for the masses. We aim to be the first Fediverse app with a billion people by taking on the worlds biggest players using open source standards. Designed and built for a better society, to bring us closer together without tracking or surveillance.

Edit: They met their funding goal!!! 🎉

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[-] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's kind of misleading to express it in number of backers. How much is it? Is it 400 people donating $100 each? It could be a lot! The lowest tier on his Patreon is $1.50. He was getting about $1200/mo. which is used for all of his projects.

Who can believe that he wasn't able to meet his lofty goals with $1200 (Canadian!) while working entirely in the downtime from his unrelated full-time job?

Pixelfed just passed Lemmy and is now the 4th largest server software by user count. By MAU, it's the 2nd largest and is about 25% the size of Mastodon. Do you know what Mastodon pulls in every month? Based on their most recent financial report, about $40,000. They're 4 times the size but getting nearly 40 times the amount in donations.

Do you know how much Stux pulls in every month for running mstdn.social (and a couple other things)? Almost $4000/mo.

Mstdn.social:
Accounts: 251,174
MAU: 17,528

Pixelfed.social:
Accounts: 272,979
MAU: 157,829

I wonder where all the money's going...

edit: sass level adjustment.

[-] Casuallynoted@pawb.social 7 points 1 month ago

Good point! I’ve edited my original post to clarify my intention behind bringing up the Patreon.

Overall, the main point I’m trying to make is that the man has a history of chronic project hopping and being hostile to other people who want to contribute to his projects. The goal was not to say that he should be able to fund his entire project via Patreon, but rather that I don’t know he’s the best person to spearhead three fedi platforms at once.