Pixelfed SMASH
Already nearly $75K:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks
Get him working on it full time lets gooo
I’m fairly sure that he’s already working full-time. But it would be really nice, if he’s not the only one, e.g. to reduce the bus-factor.
Why does it say $54K for me?
Says that for me too. Could it be the difference between USD and Canadian Dollars?
Yes. If you hover over the small $ next to the amount, it says “converted from CA$…”
I know I’m a completely jaded and bitter old Gen Xer for saying this but, there’s never going to be such a thing as a better social media app because social media (I’m referring generally to the suite of apps, not just Pixelfed).
Never used Instagram. Could selfhosting Pixelfed be useful for sharing pictures between family members?
While I have not used this feature specifically - immich is great for self hosting photos
There’s no privacy.
It’s posting your images to the world by default?
Yes, whatever you put up there is for public consumption. It’s closer to Twitter than Facebook.
possibly, but that specific use-case has been solved with dedicated image hosting tools that allow sharable links https://photoview.github.io/
this is more decentralized social networks
This looks great. I have been using Nextcloud and FileBrowser for that.
It should be a co-op.
I think it’s just a matter of time if pixelfed really takes off (which I hope fingers crossed)…
As long as people are migrating to the fediverse…
I would love to join, but the whole registration process fails at every turn. Mails aren’t sent, login pages just do refresh…please…just let me iiiiinn
Choose a smaller instance. The biggest one isn’t accepting people right now.
I also had this problem. I tried 3 small (<1k user) instances and never got a signup email from any of them. Almost began to wonder if Gmail was just blackhole filtering all of them.
I signed up on a smaller instance, and it took them like two weeks to confirm my account. But it does work now.
They might be? Federation isn’t great for all of the big boys.
It’s more a problem of aggressive spam filtering- “big name” email domains will automatically ignore traffic from every email server thats not part of a known proven white-list, ostensibly to stop spammers from spinning up new domains every few minutes to keep sending mails. So any small service, including a self hosted option for email, often gets conveniently blackholed by the monopoly and are not usable.
I got onto the biggest one (I think pixelfed.social) but it seems to be down frequently. When it works it’s fine. Figure it’s probably growing pains, I know lemmy was the same after the reddit exodus and it’s been much better lately.
I don’t know if I happened to just get lucky, but I was having issues in firefox mobile and had to temporary instal chrome for the account creation. Not sure if chrome actually fixed the issue or if the server just happened to come back up after I switched.
Yeah, tried to sign up earlier this morning, and account creation and linkage seems to be rather fucky currently
That’s a bummer. I picked an instance from…
…and it was very painless and quick. Have you tried joining a different instance? Do you have an adblocker or JS blocker that might be fucking up the registration?
Is there a repo to get the official app on F-droid? Or is it play store only? (And why)
Great questions!
I would assume there are no plans to release on free stores like F-droid because the people behind these projects usually don’t care about the ecosystem; they’re just in it for the money! It’s all auto-pilot for them, which means releasing only on the company stores “just because” that’s what everyone else is doing.
I’d love to be proven wrong, but I won’t hold my breath!
Those are some pretty bad faith assumptions
In the current state of the world you can’t blame him/her. He’s just describing enshittification which is the norm in social media
Removed by mod
Have you heard about “arguing in bad faith”? When it’s an entirely different person or entity from those that screwed us in the past it’s unfair on them to assume they’re in it to screw people over especially when it comes to open source federated platforms where cutting one head means it can still work fine.
Hey man, neither of us can see the future.
It’s totally possible I’m incorrect, I even said that at the bottom of my text.
If I’m wrong, great. But I won’t hold my breath because I wasn’t born yesterday. Seeing this guy say “not for sale” while begging for money is a very tired stance to have, considering all the people who work harder than him and don’t rely on donations or sales.
Nice advertisement.
I guess he just didn’t receive the right offer yet. Just wait until he gets offered millions.
Just because a lot of people sell their kidney if the price is high enough, there indeed are people true to their principles.
For me it’s this: if I can achieve my goals/dreams (which at least in my case are at least capped regarding money), why do I need more money?
he also has a patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/dansup/membership
So it claims to be foss but needs all that money? What’s the hype about and why should I care?
FOSS doesn’t mean “we do not accept voluntary donations.”
To me, they’re a lot like supporting a YouTube creator you like on a funding website like Ko-Fi (or that other one that starts with a P), you don’t pay to watch their content, you pay because you enjoy their content and want them to get better at it, and you get some freebies in return that never feel necessary for those who can’t afford or don’t want to spend money on them.
It’s also why on Bandcamp, you can choose to pay more than the asking price for a song/album if you really feel like it. You never need to, but you can because you care about the artist’s work.
FOSS can really benefit a lot from voluntary donations, especially since making software (especially good software) and maintaining it costs money. This is especially the case for a website that relies on maintaining servers and instances.
Yep, that’s pretty much how I see it too.
Are the concepts of costs and development foreign to you?
I’m a software engineer and I’ve participated in open source development.
So you’re just being an ass then?
I wouldn’t downvote an ignorant for asking a question, that’s actually praiseworthy.
But I will downvote an ignorant who somehow is so entitled that they think it’s others’ responsibility to enlighten him. Go lick a candle.
