Send Loops/Pixelfed a cheque instead
He shoudn’t send DanSupp a cheque directly, but help him setup a non-profit or foundation for Pixelfed, then give that foundation a cheque.
Dan is doing a good job developing Pixelfed, but it looks like a one-man show, and that’s a bottleneck for the project.
Only if the cheque goes towards improving the UX of it all. The main thing that prevents normal users from switching is forcing them to learn new concepts like federation, picking a server, and all that entails.
People here are in a bubble where they think everyone else is as tech savvy as them.
And people beginning the conversation with “blah is a service you can self host” doesn’t help. Such a personal pet peeve.
It’s the new “btw I use arch”
tapping the “there are no good billionaires” sign
remember when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post, slapped “Democracy dies in darkness” on the masthead, and a bunch of MSNBC-brained liberals thought it was going to be the newspaper that led the resistance against Trump?
I just woke up from a years-long coma. could someone tell me how that worked out?
Yeah, no thanks. We have Pixelfed, let’s just make that even better.
Honestly I think that reels in general are toxic to mental health. I say we just move on.
Unfortunately that’s not going to happen. They’re something people have become accustomed and addicted to. There’s no going back now. The only hope for combating them is to come up with something at least as compelling, but hopefully less harmful. Like vaping is to smoking. What that is though, I have no idea.
I say we just get everyone on hard drugs. Only kidding, don’t worry. But I’d definitely like some hard drugs for me.
Arguably, ActivityPub has its shortcomings. Also, having another protocol similar to ActivityPub creates more competition which drives innovation (and gets people away from corporate-controlled sites like Meta).
And you think Mark Cuban is funding what, exactly? A member’s co-op?
