Pixelfed & Loops Kickstarter Campaign Just Launched
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It's almost like you could check out the linked campaign and answer that question with a couple of minutes reading.
The money goes to supporting pixelfed, loops and sup development, with the goal being financing full time development for the entire team.
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It's almost like I already did read it and it didn't answer the question.
"Kickstarter" is supposed to be a crowdfunding campaign to "kickstart" a project, not string it along.
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Oh no, someone is tarnishing the sacred name of a kickstarter campaign by checks notes raising money to scale up a project that can benefit everyone (thus kickstarting the scaling effort) instead of selling a $250 plastic brick that generates far-infrared waves using no electricity in order to "stabilise" your car's battery which you velcro the brick on top of (okay, that one was an IndieGoGo, but same difference).
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So games that have a demo or an alpha build should not be allowed on kickstarter since they technically already exist?
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I reaaallllly would urge people not to get involved with this kickstarter. He gave similar lists of things he would do with the money he’s been receiving from from nearly 400 backers on his Patreon for years. (I’ve noticed how on his posts about the kickstarter he goes out of his way to say his work is “entirely self funded”) Instead he’s been jumping from project to project and has been incredibly awful toward folks who want to help improve the stuff he’s neglected.
Take it as a red flag that he’s still the only dev actively working on three incredibly half baked fedi apps, and if you can, look through his mastodon profile to see the kinds of things he says. Check the GitHub issues for Pixelfed and how long some of the most basic ones have been sitting there for.
I genuinely do hope this kickstarter yields something the Patreon I supported does not, as I still run a Pixelfed instance and like it conceptually. But the software itself has been and only gets more broken, and given the way he has privately treated the pixelfed-glitch team all the while publicly acting like he’s been great to and is actively working with them, I really don’t think this dude is acting in especially good faith.
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Another relevant post: https://lemmy.world/post/24487031
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Dansup is a weirdo tbh someones gotta fork pixelfed and give it a better name
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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.
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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.
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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?
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I didn't say anything about what should or should not be allowed.
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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.
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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: 17,528Pixelfed.social:
Accounts: 272,979
MAU: 157,829I 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.
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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.
