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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by davel@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

It's Cory. This time the guy holding court is Cory.

BTW, the Kickstarter for Pixelfed and Loops, the actually-open, ActivityPub based clones of Instagram and TikTok, just hit $35,000 in its first 13 hours. The creator of Mastodon just ceded control to a new non-profit. That's how you do it. By spending money to build free things for the public interest out in the open, not by tithing your money, labor and attention directly to VC-funded for-profit corporations.

For those who donโ€™t know jwz, among other things, you have him to thank for Firefox/Mozillaโ€™s existence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski

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[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

Oh no, but those poor Blue Sky users, when the service becomes even more terrible they might lose all their posts. We must save them from their own bad decisions!"

i wonder why it's so hard for people to understand this about social media with significant financial backing; it literally happens every ๐Ÿ‘ single ๐Ÿ‘ time ๐Ÿ‘ .

and here i am bieng the pot that's calling the kettle black since i did tiktok up until monday. lol

[-] drspod@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

At least you learned the lesson.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

it's a lesson i've learned many times since the days of bbs & icq; but it keeps catching me off guard.

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago
[-] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago
[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

I fuckin love this guy

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

What's the third logo? I recognize the rest, but not the rotated blue G or whatever it is.

[-] scott@loves.tech 5 points 2 months ago

The third logo is Gravatar, which allows you to set an avatar associated with your email. It is mostly used by blog platforms such as WordPress to associate an avatar with your comments. Many other platforms, such as Hubzilla and many forums, support Gravatar.

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago
[-] wisdomchicken@piefed.social 11 points 2 months ago

Loops is not open source lmao, its just Dansup promising that he'll opensource it in an eventual future.

Saying "this platform is not actually open because the people running it are bad, come to these actually open platforms", and then proceed to list a closed-source platform is incredibly funny

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago

It keeps being advertised as such, and wanted registration for installing. I left it there and unsubscribed. But now they keep mailing me offers :/

[-] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
[-] remer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
[-] tejan@hubzilla.monster 2 points 2 months ago

But, why male models?

[-] tejan@hubzilla.monster 1 points 2 months ago

I am wondering what the images are for myself.

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