Pixelfed has been around for a couple of years. I created an account in the summer of 2022. But it didn't become popular until there was an app. A web app that does the same isn't enough. If it isn't in App Store/Play it doesn't exist for most people (which is something all Fediverse devs must think about).

Anyway, plenty of information about the development pace was available for anyone who wants to make an informed decision before they send their money somewhere. Apparently >2000 people thought it was worth it.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 23 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Every few months Dansup announces that Groups are imminent.

[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 15 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Dark mode is supposed to be released this weekend! 50 weekends ago.

I stopped keeping up with him to save my sanity and excitement for when I can actually see for myself what has changed with an update.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 8 points 23 hours ago

Wow, no dark mode on a photo app. Photos look great on a dark background...

[–] Suoko@feddit.it 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

They will be implemented when a typescript or python clone will be created

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 23 hours ago

Groups will come after GNU herd becomes usable.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Tbh I've just given up with him as an engineer. He goes and does side projects while his core base waits for updates, even while earning actual funding to improve said projects. For that much you could actually hire an engineer or two to build out Pixelfed more if you didn't want to anymore.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

"Pixelfed itself has also grown, and there are now reportedly 8 people joining the team."

Fediverse report

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 8 hours ago

Oh well that's good!

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I still don't see the repo containing the actual backend code.

[–] juergen@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i thought it would be this one? https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server/pull/1

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, not even giving a reason. Shameless.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

There was a reason given, but it smells of bovine excrement: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/114041543384358354.

When probed a bit more about it, the silence was deafening.

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Y i k e s. I knew he was a little sleazy but come on...

[–] rglullis@communick.news 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

No, I don't think he is sleazy or have ill-intentions. I think he genuinely wants to do good things.

The problem it's just that he lacks focus and he worries more about feeling validated than dealing with the daily grind of continuously improving his product. As soon as any of his projects start getting a minimal amount of interest and people start depending on what he has promised, he finds himself some "new" project to be busy with. At the same time, he still feels possessive about his creations, so it's hard for him to just delegate away any significant part of the system.

I hope that the successful kickstarter makes him realize that shit got real and that he already got the validation that he was seeking, and that the money is enough to get him surrounded by good people who are a bit more focused on "proper" project management.

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, that was too harsh sorry. I do hope he gets his shit sorted and starts making the right moves.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

Excellent!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't have a reference point for who "owns" pixelfed, or who gets the money. Therefore I don't have a reference point for if this is a drop in the bucket, or a neverending waterfall of funding.

I thought nobody owned pixelfed. Therefore, wouldn't each instance owner get the money? Thus making this like "each instance owner gets $5"?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This goes to the main developer, which is a person in Canada. But I think they have a few collaborators that will likely get on board more now that they want to set up a non-profit (?) foundation to manage the Pixelfed codebase and IP.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

The fundraising was for the development of Pixelfed's source code. e.g. adding new features, bug fixing, etc. - not for currently hosted servers and their infrastructure. So it went to @dansup.