I've received 5 VC offers "to chat" regarding Pixelfed in the past few days.

Dr Pen

@dansup
Those guys are only gonna buy it then kill it. I've seen it over and over again. Kill the competition, suffocate the innovation and ideas, snuff out the passion. You get paid off, but it's your own end. Keep it like it is now though, and you're a legend.

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@dansup Thank you for sticking to your guns. Keep trudging on, the community has your back.

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@dansup Hell yeah! Count me in!

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@dansup death to VC!

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@dansup

Way to go! Hero!

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@dansup this is a super decision.

Follow Mastodon's trajectory and opportunity to do one better, where a collective commons helps share the burdens as well as the joys. With community to delegate the chores, and help foster and guarantee pixelfed and loop's long-term sustainably. Increase the bus factor, before you burn out. A single person is not invincible, a united movement might be.

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@dansup Not as long as you don't go fully open source with all your Fediverse projects.

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@dansup Good call. Venture capital is poison.

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Powerless Ranger

@dansup I was hoping you’d crowdsource. You deserve this moment. Good work.

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@dansup I feel that part of the money should be used for Personal Protection...

DrMess

@dansup any thoughts of photo backup service also?

freediverx

@dansup
Fuck VCs. All of them and their fascist CEOs.