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dansup

Ngl, a few days ago I was considering giving up on @pixelfed

Seeing all the hate and negativity regarding my pf.soc Threads announcement really hit hard

Now I'm more focused than ever on our mission, and building better privacy and safety tools to empower users

Mountains of achievement rise from the valleys of hardship

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Joan Westenberg

@dansup @pixelfed @lashman for what it's worth - reading through all this and seeing your point of view etc makes me want to use pixelfed. I support your decision to integrate with threads and I think it's cool.

Pierre-Yves Lapersonne

@dansup @pixelfed Your project is gorgeous. You are awesome. You brought a very nice brick to the #Fediverse with #Pixelfed. It remains your project. If people disagree with your choice, they can hard fork and move. Stay safe, take your time and some rest, and keep getting pleasure working on your stuff :blobcatheart:
You will always find haters and upsetting morons, but you will also find loving people behind you. :activitypub: :fediverse: :blobnomcookie:

dansup

@pylapp @pixelfed I appreciate the kind words! I know that Pixelfed isn't for everyone, but I'm optimistic and like to think that I can work hard to change their opinions.

It's not about pleasing everyone, it's about doing the right thing and I think once you can achieve that, the former will come naturally.

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@dansup @pylapp @pixelfed yeah think of taylor swift-honestly the more you do what you know is right, the more it will grow for the right reasons and in the right way

Lee 🌏

@dansup @pylapp @pixelfed
What you are doing is quite frankly AMAZING!

Laura Ritchie 🌸

@dansup @pixelfed You are a phoenix. and you are certainly capable of flying to the top of mountains.

dansup

@lauraritchie @pixelfed Aww, thank you!! I really appreciate that!

The Solo project I'm working on was the inspiration for that metaphor, and I hope it gives many others the ability to fly high on their own self-hosted small web fediverse server 😁

Laura Ritchie 🌸

@dansup @pixelfed seriously, you've hung in there through lots of rubbish and the normal rubbish of testing and glitches and development and have really created something good. You got this.

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@dansup @pixelfed It’s massively divisive the different views and people are also very passionate about it. Difficult to please all but thankful that you’re working on the tools to give choice rather than take it away. Thanks for all your hardwork as always.

Sheldon Chang πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

@dansup @pixelfed thanks for your efforts with Pixelfed, Dan.

I know it's Threads federating and not Instagram, but if that experiment goes well and someday it's Instagram that's federating, I would seriously consider taking my Instagram account and hopping aboard Pixelfed instead.

More than any of the other ActivityPub services, Pixelfed and Firefish were what made me realize I wanted to back the federated future because those two services really brought home the diversity of options that decentralized social media makes possible.

@dansup @pixelfed thanks for your efforts with Pixelfed, Dan.

I know it's Threads federating and not Instagram, but if that experiment goes well and someday it's Instagram that's federating, I would seriously consider taking my Instagram account and hopping aboard Pixelfed instead.

More than any of the other ActivityPub services, Pixelfed and Firefish were what made me realize I wanted to back the federated future because those two services really brought home the diversity of options that decentralized...

Trek

@dansup @pixelfed what's your pixelfed? I'll give it a follow from mine.

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@dansup @pixelfed people who use pixelfed do that for one reason and one reason alone: they don't want meta. your logic is flawed.

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@dansup @pixelfed I am new to fedi but was an instagram enjoyer until I realized how sick it made me. I am excited to see pixelfed take off and I think what can be different this time around is we can educate lay people about how to be technologically anticapitalist with FLOSS. if people don't see the "real-world value" of the infrastructure available to them, they aren't gonna know what they're missing. i think the info just needs to be condensed and spread. I'm working on a how to guide thing

J L Gatewood (StarrWulfe)

@dansup @pixelfed

Well I love it. Thank you because this is what federation is all about. Everyone else can block the domain on a user level or find/make a Thread-less instance if they don’t like it.

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