Dansup is looking to fund working on fediverse projects full time

[cris_color@lemmy.world]

If you have a couple dollars to spare

Daniel Supernault (@[email protected])

Could you imagine the progress if I worked full time on Pixelfed, Loops, Sup and PubKit? I have a full time job, so I have to balance that with all my projects. Wanna make history? Help us fund full time development on the future of ethical, federated and open source social media. I have a huge vision for the fedi, and I'm making great progress, but we need to accelerate it. With your help! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=1hx75e

Mastodon (mastodon.social)

[demeaning_casually@infosec.pub]

Judging by the state of his apps, could he pay someone to mentor help him while he learns the basics of app development. He seems intent on learning as he goes on his closed source project which due to the hacky state of it, makes the rest of the fediverse look like a bunch amateur software developer hacks to the influx of millions of new users?

[stevo887@lemmings.world]

Mastodon is fine. The fediverse doesn’t have to pretend like it has alternatives for every social media network overnight. People expect semi equivalent experiences to apps developed by massive teams and corporations.

[max_p@lemmy.max-p.me]

It makes the fediverse look about as bad as Lemmy did when the Reddit apicalypse happened.

I think we mostly need to communicate the state of things well and frequently to keep users aware this is super alpha preview software and that the the technology is sound but just needs time to mature properly. It's the cost of freedom: patience. As long as the fixes and improvements keeps coming, buggy shouldn't be that much of a problem.

[demeaning_casually@infosec.pub]

It makes the fediverse look about as bad as Lemmy did when the Reddit apicalypse happened.

At least it mostly worked!

[cris_color@lemmy.world]

I don't entirely disagree but I do think it would help if he could work on stuff full time. He has like 4 separate projects he's running in his spare time around a job

I don't think it's smart of him to take on that many separate things in his spare time, and I agree that building it closed source first isn't a great choice, but I have no agency over those choices other than to tell him I think he could be making better choices on Mastodon

Ultimately, I don't expect people who build foss stuff I want to be perfect, or make the choices I think would be most optimal, or to be the most capable developer in the room. I don't see anyone else building it, so it's his project and he can make choices I don't agree with. And I don't even really think it's an issue of dev competency; the pixelfed app was literally on its first release when it started getting attention. The biggest problem is that all of his projects are moving at the speed of molasses, because he has four of them and also a full time job.

I want all the things he's building to exist, and he's the one who stepped up to the plate, so what I can do is donate as I'm able, talk about it so others know he needs funding, and continue offering feedback on Mastodon when he's discussing stuff.

I don't even particularly like the guy, but I still wanna see his projects succeed

[chirospasm@lemmy.ml]

Well, not closed source anymore. Looks like, in an effort to align with 'switch' day that's been happening on Mastodon, the source code is now open to the public as of an hour ago:

Daniel Supernault (@[email protected])

Loops mobile app source code: https://github.com/joinloops/loops-app The rest will be pushed shortly, just preparing a new TestFlight build ✨ #loops #activitypub

Mastodon (mastodon.social)

[sergio@slrpnk.net]

ikr Lemmy had and still has some weirdnesses but frankly so do the corporate platforms.

[die4ever@programming.dev]

yea but it definitely pushed a lot of people away, if we had Lemmy v0.19.8 back then we would've retained way more users

[emperor@feddit.uk]

Looks like the fundraiser is going well. Looks like he is pulling in more money than is split between the Lemmy devs, which will make a big difference - the Fediverse needs full-time devs and so this crowd-funding is key and, hopefully, demonstrates a new funding route for others.

With previous dramas he has caused, I'd really want to see him delegating more, perhaps even create a group to oversee projects.

[suoko@feddit.it]

I guess loops will have good chances to succeed.
It's seen as a 'bereal' social network alternatives, the people I showed it were surprised it contains content from real people.
If it spreads thanks to young developers and their friends and circles, it might disrupt the "boring game".
Vine is back

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Good news!

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Indeed, but "unfortunately" corporate social media keep messing things up, so people have more opportunities to come back check how things are