 The operational costs for: https://pixelfed.social Now exceed $4,000 USD per month, we currently get $1,465 from Patreon. We could use your financial support more than ever while I build a foundation for long term financial support (think official hosting). Please boost 🙏 72 comments
 @mntyfrsh we have one in the footer, I'm hesitant to make it more visible because I don't want apple to reject future app updates due to their clause on collecting 30%  @dansup @mntyfrsh at least according to https://getonthestore.com/nonprofit-donation-apps/ > Apple’s 30% commission applies to payments made through in-app purchases (IAP). However, charitable donations are not processed through IAP, so this commission does not apply to donations made within your app.  It is incredible what is being accomplished here for this amount on money. Public social media is us. Now is our time. We can make this happen. Please donate what you can to Pixelfed. ☝️   @stanlog@mamot.fr Ohh, a great idea. The result will be that many people in the Fediverse which are outside the so called Mastodon network (which did not exist) will move away from Pixelfed and related things because of the drama of Eugen and the Open Web thing. The Mastodon gGmbH collects 30 K € per month donations and has so much money that they lost last year the for charity status in Germany. So, if they really would help @dansup@mastodon.social they simple could donate to him.   @futurebird All necessary info and alternative payment methods: https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project Direct link to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dansup  Le message précédent de @dansup concerne l'instance originale de Pixelfed, mais n'oublions pas que nous sommes nous-mêmes sur des instances financées uniquement par les dons, et c'est ce qui fait l'autonomie, notamment politique, du #fediverse. Alors si vous le pouvez, pensez, de temps en temps, à verser quelques euros aux admins de votre instance Mastodon, Peertube ou autre : c'est le prix de la liberté et de l'indépendance !  @dansup Is there a open document that explains cost per item? And maybe get some companies to pitch in to ensure existence for the future?  @nblr that's fair, but at the same time, I can't worry about devops. I have to focus on coding, devops and marketing, otherwise I would go another route.   @mrtoto @dansup @mrtoto @dansup but why then do you want to have an onboarding that leads to one instance? It will raise the server costs even more and you can't meet the monthly costs atm? I don't understand @bookstardust because a lot of new users do not understand federation, its a complicated step @dansup but they understand discord, i know it's a complicated step, but can't you orientate on how mastodon is doing it? I feel that worked pretty well, adding the alternative but otherwise lead them to pixelfed?  @dansup This was probably proposed, but: what if any instance could have some setting in it which says that it is ok with being a “general” one. Then, on the onboarding step, a random instance from a list of instances that participate would be selected, with some simple explanation for a user, a button to randomize it from the same list again, and then a link to all instances? @dansup This could alleviate the load, and distribute the users over more instances, with them being able to opt out, and maybe even set a hard limit over how many users they agree to accept when opting in to this? (Obviously, these instances should be checked to be “ok” and maybe pledge to the “the respectful platforms”?)  @kizu @dansup Your idea reminds me of this tiered list of XMPP providers: https://providers.xmpp.net/ @kizu That won't work, people who are not familiar with the fedi want to join the flagship instance with the most trust and reliability. Using random servers to register on is very dangerous, because not all of them are as dedicated to this as I am, some of them don't update frequently or handle mod reports as fast as we do. For new people, it's essential we provide them the best experience and server, and few can provide the level that I can, because I'm the developer. @dansup Mm, I think maybe we should have a bit more faith in the Fediverse, and other Pixelfed servers? That's why I mentioned the “pledge”, and why I mentioned some moderation over which servers are accepted. Of course, just random servers would be bad from many standpoints. Not giving an option is saying “all other servers deserve no trust”.  @dansup @kizu I adore you and respect all the work you do immensely, but "only I can do it right" does not sound sustainable, or even healthy for the idea of a distributed fedi. We can all agree that a *totally* random server would be unacceptable. But couldn't you pre-select one from a curated shortlist, while still providing the ability for knowledgeable or opinionated users to override that default? @dansup @dansup @bookstardust Isn't "fediverse" half of the name of "pixelfed"? Isn't federation the point?  @dansup So, you have 8 websties to maintain, 4 software projects to write and you've been taking on more stuff recently. I MUST warn you about the dangers of burnout at this point.  @dansup I work in cloud infrastructure, let me know how I can also donate spare server capacity @dansup as well as donations for the main servers, I think we need to push more on the idea of "decentralization" and teaching people how easy to it to setup your own instances or smaller communities. This reduces cost on the larger servers also. I run Mastodon and Pixelfed for myself and family, for example. i'd only get behind this if updates, especially security updates, are quick and done in the background a web facing thing that isn't updated often is how you get another wordpress @pixelnull @dansup oh, what happened with wordpress? I run mine on a VPS, nothing sensitive on it. It's not an encrypted tool anyway. Unless you mean the sites being used for something more malicious without owners knowledge? that and how they are just always getting popped due to bad admining and not being updated i can see the same thing happening to masto @dansup https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project - you are right! I don't post many photos, but I sometimes like to see photographers' work. A dollar or two a month is no big deal - even a few thousand additional supporters will put #pixelfed in the black. Let's go folks . . .  @dansup facing up to the realities of “free as in speech” not “free as in beer.” Support your local Mastodon instance!  @dansup woah, with those numbers it’s probs worth getting an architect in to suggest cost optimisations  "The Pixelfed homepage and "support our project" page both have a banner directing people to a Kickstarter that's almost 200% funded. I wonder if they've cannibalized their own donations by steering people there."     @dansup how about ISPs host an instance for their customers as a value add. This is how usenet uses to work and it worked pretty well.   @dansup »Official hosting« would be awesome! If you set up something similar to masto.host, I would be very interested in running my own Pixelfed/Loops instance under my own domains with you.  @dansup y'know, making the Loops app less about federation and pointing everyone to your own servers doesn't help with this :P Wer sagt den Neuen, dass, wer kann, im Fedi Geld geben soll, weil keine Aufmerksamkeit und keine Daten verkauft werden? |
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@dansup I just pledged to the Kickstarter! Let's make this happen.