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Some Pixelfed history that you may not know:

I registered pixelfed.org on Apr 15 2018, 2 days before I announced it

I knew I wanted to build a federated IG, but I spent hours picking a name and making sure the .com was available.

I registered the domains/github org before I wrote a single line of code, this was a side project habit of mine at the time

What I never expected was for Pixelfed to be more than a throwaway weekend project

If it wasn't for the huge response from the fedi...

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If it wasn't for the huge response from the fediverse, I would have given up (like many similar projects did at the time)

Y'all really inspired me to continue and evolve, most fediverse users don't realize the impact they have on projects and developers, especially smaller ones

This is why I'm so open to feedback and love giving credit to the "smallest" ideas!

This really is magic ✨

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