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Pixelfed has been making incredible strides over the past few years, and has begun developing a suite of different platforms and services for the #Fediverse. After just one day on Kickstarter, they've already smashed their campaign goal.

But they still need your help!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I love pixelfed,I don't love the developer......this isn't going to do his already huge ego Amy favours

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Hers a list of Fedi based projects where parople have said the same thing

  • Mastodon
  • Lemmy
  • GotoSocial
  • Bookwyhrm

Then step outside that

  • Linux
  • GNU

Then stuff like

  • Meta
  • Twitter
  • Microsoft
  • Apple
  • Oracle
  • AI

Do anything and some people will dislike you. I save my loathing for the commercial projects and the inevitable enshitiftacion of the internet that they necessarily add to.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's helpful to be able to appreciate art without worrying too much about the artist. In history the number of genius artists who were bad people - it's basically off the scale.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This isn't art, it's a platform, it's a tool more akin to engineering than painting.

Would you have this same response for x, Facebook, or truth social?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think in terms of fedi, it's fine. I mean plenty of people think Linus Torvold is an Ass, but we all love Linux for what it is.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's a fair point. But then in the case of a piece of (literal) art created by a computer program, who was the artist if not the programmer? In legal terms software is a work of creativity like any other.

Perhaps the important factor is how many people are involved. To be art, there has to be a single artist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So if two people work together on a painting, its not art?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Edge case! Maybe? Or a Beatles song written by John and Paul.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

he's not even a bad guy he just gets a big head sometimes