Pixelfed & Loops Kickstarter Campaign Just Launched

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Dansup is a weirdo tbh someones gotta fork pixelfed and give it a better name

Chozo

I've gotten some odd vibes from him (his recent posts hyping up Loops and Pixelfed have slightly manic energy to them), but I'm curious what you find weird about him.

Great Blue Heron

Well that's a bit disappointing.

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I have no horse in this race and tend to believe the poster, but those comments have no context and make no sense to me.

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Exactly that. He comes off as manic. Doesn't seem to be good at working with others. I just get a really bad vibe like he's doing it out of ego.

Ulrich

someone is tarnishing the sacred name of a kickstarter campaign

Wow. You really missed the mark on that one. I don't know why would you think I was making that point instead of the very clearly more sensible "it's not what it's for".

In other words, why don't they just have a donation page like everyone else?

Ulrich

I didn't say anything about what should or should not be allowed.

TheTechnician27

My point being I see no reason why Kickstarter can't be for kickstarting the rapid scaling of a free, available-to-all project when it can be for rampant, unadulterated scams.

Ulrich

Not saying it "can't" be used for anything, it is just a strange choice because it's not "kickstarting" anything. It's already going.

In other words, why don't they just have a donation page like everyone else?

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It's kind of telling that you'd express it 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? What's he doing with that fortune?!?!

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:
Account: 251,174
MAU: 17,528

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

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

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That doesn't really seem that bad, but Dan's New Year's resolution really ought to be not posting while drinking. Every time something like that happens, it's invariably 3am local time and he's been smoking weed and having a few drinks. It's not a great look for him or his projects. No one's at their best drunk at 3am.

Cas

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.

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I agree that it's just too much for a single person to do.

FWIW, his stated medium-term goal is to hand sup and loops off to other people once they've launched.