- cross-posted to:
- pixelfed@lemmy.world
- fediverso
- cross-posted to:
- pixelfed@lemmy.world
- fediverso
To celebrate the release of the Pixelfed Mobile app going live on the Apple App Store & Google Play Store, we’re proud to be launching our first Kickstarter campaign. All funds raised will go toward continued development and support of the core Pixelfed Foundation applications and the ActivityPub ecosystem at large.
The Pixelfed Team builds open source and ethical social networks for the masses. We aim to be the first Fediverse app with a billion people by taking on the worlds biggest players using open source standards. Designed and built for a better society, to bring us closer together without tracking or surveillance.
Didn’t know about sup
A big downside to fediverse messaging is that it isn’t secure, and so we’re warned when using it. Would anyone have more details on why we might use this over a more private messenger?
Matrix and Element?
Exactly. Does what Signal does, but federates as well.
I wouldn’t hold your breath. He’s been promising it for a while, but nothing has come to fruition. I don’t blame him one single bit though, he is a single dev working on all these awesome projects and I just wish he’d be a little more realistic with how many projects he can actually keep up in the air.
I feel something as important and critical as an E2EE messenger would need someone watching it round the clock- it’s not a sort of release and forget thing is it
yeah, and instead of doing that he makes sure to remain the single dev and paints himself as the second coming of Steve Jobs.
Yeah, no, not at all. I’d feel intensely uncomfortable using Sup for anything when something like Signal exists. The network effect issue is the exact same on both platforms, so why am I going to take the most trusted communication application and protocol in the world and choose Sup which is the work of a single dev with no obvious background in cybersec, let alone the kind of math necessary to properly understand encryption?
I guess thats what the Kickstarter is for. Also, don’t forget that the benefit of sup might be communication across all fediverse platforms, which means that as long as you have a single account in the fediverse, you can talk to all other accounts. Quite a bigger network than Signal, which is only a single platform.
The Fediverse also includes Element/Matrix which doesn’t use the ActivityPub protocol and it’s end to end encrypted.
Edit: other decentralized apps are SimpleX and DeltaChat, very cool apps
Yeah I’d rather the Matrix/Element people got that funding. They need it.
Sup is a bad idea and I am not really convinced about Loops in its current form either, but the Pixelfed dev has done a lot of good work otherwise on various Fediverse projects so I think this Kickstarter deserves support.
It’s supposed to be e2ee so it should be another more private messenger.
Interesting ok, I hope the donations take off because it felt like the team was spreading itself too thin working on all three things at once