When I open up Pixelfed on Android, the Pixelfed logo that appears while it's loading the app looks really tiny. Does that happen to other Android users too?
@pixelfed @dansup
#dansup
Interview with Dansup, developer of Pixelfed, Loops, fedidb.org
Welcome Fedi Friends to the episode 10 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.
I'm very EXCITED about my guest today. I'm so excited I took a shower, shaved my head and face, wore my BEST t-shirt and shorts, and I even brushed my teeth! TO be fair I do all those things daily and I was out doing yard work earlier and needed a shower, BUT if I hadn't, I still would have done it for my guest!
With me today is Dansup! Dansup is "just a guy from canada building things for the fediverse". No one big. You probably don't even know him ... oh wait ... I'm being told he's made a few things and that he's "an aspiring astronaut, community creator and determined dreamer. - Currently building Pixelfed.org, an ethical and federated photo sharing platform powered by ActivityPub.."
Episode 10 - Dansup - Pixelfed, Loops, Sup, etc - Livestream 2025-04-14
🚨 📺 @firesidefedi is live on Owncast! 📺
Catch the stream here: https://stream.firesidefedi.live/
#Dansup #Loops #FediShow #PixelFed #owncast #livestream #twitch
🎥 LIVE NOW @firesidefedi ! 🎥
Watch here: https://stream.firesidefedi.live/
#FiresideFedi #Dansup #Loops #Pixelfed #owncast #livestream #stream #selfhosted
HOLY FUCK!
Stay the fuck away from loops.video! (https://bajsicki.com/blog/loops-video-terms/) (Edit: Apparently the TOS have been changed. You might wanna stay cautious, though.)
Also, if you have any followers from an unpatched Pixelfed server, you might want to know that your follower-only posts can be easily read by people who aren't following you. (https://fokus.cool/2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html)
If you're hosting a Pixelfed instance: Good luck updating! 🫡
I believe Dan plans to never #federate , revoke federation, or at least retain the ability to do so. See term 2 on Loop's website: https://loops.video/legal/terms-of-service
which says such things as "under this license you may not:...use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);.....transfer the materials to another person or "mirror" and the materials on any other server...This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by Loops at any time." and "Loops may revise these terms of service for its website at any time without notice" Loops' terms are not open source and could be used to justify #defederation or changing policy on federation. And considering how dan behaves with peers who disagree with him, I could see him deciding federation isn't what he wants to do with Loops, which he treats not as an #opensource thing but as #proprietary
NO #FOSSWASHING
#dansup I am a developer from Montreal. I want to contribute to your awesome project free of charge. I can only contribute part time because of my day job, but I love your app so much, I want to work on it part time if you allow me. I am a developer from Montreal with over 7 years of experience. Let me know what you think, if not it is all good. Thank you for your wonderful app. We need a social network that is not based out of USA
Meanwhile, over at another understaffed #Pixelfed project:
"We have paused all crawling as of Feb 6th, 2025 until we implement robots.txt support.
Stats will not update during this period."
Here: https://fedidb.org/
And:
"FediDB is in read only mode while we implement robots.txt detection support, we are also adding a self removal tool that checks robots.txt so you can remove your data from FediDB.
I don't have an ETA, but expect this to be shipped this month."
Here: https://github.com/fedidb/issues/issues/52
Never bite off less than you can chew, eh #DanSup?
cc @z428eu
Dansup (Pixelfed, Loops, and FediDB dev) 's treatment of Hazel, a dev that he excitedly announced was joining the Loops team only to later retract that and publicly berate her, catalogued here - https://dansup-open-letter.github.io/appendix/#behaviour - is gross.
Dansup's treatment of Tobi, one of the GoToSocial devs, and the GTS project in general, recently has also been gross - https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/113956125906236265
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Dansup removed all his posts on mastodon.social ;(
Dansup is currently having outage, it seems
#Dansup #Dansupisoverparty
🇬🇧 I leave a note here pinned to my profile as a warning for #PixelFed users - #Dansup is a weird Elon Musk type of the guy, who just drops his users account (along with a content) without any warning, because they criticise him. Choose fediverse servers carefully to ensure that there is no immature full of bullshit ego admin. Full story is linked below, and please do not hesitate to share to avoid people run into problem with loosing their data: https://mastodon.art/@bluszcz/113923321648361378
"A recounting of dansup's hostility towards FOSS maintainers and the ecosystem at large" — wait what?
"A recounting of dansup's hostility towards FOSS maintainers... #pixelfed, #dansup
The Pixelfed and Loops developer @dansup launched a Kickstarter campaign that might interest you, if you're fed up with tech billionaires deciding what your social media experience is like.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks
#Pixelfed #Loops #Dansup #TikTok #ByteDance #Instagram #Facebook #Threads #Meta #X #Twitter
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