48
Pixelfed fundraised $134,139 for development
(www.kickstarter.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
48 points (98.0% liked)
Fediverse
32516 readers
466 users here now
A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!
Rules
- Posts must be on topic.
- Be respectful of others.
- Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
- Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.
Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration)
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I don't have a reference point for who "owns" pixelfed, or who gets the money. Therefore I don't have a reference point for if this is a drop in the bucket, or a neverending waterfall of funding.
I thought nobody owned pixelfed. Therefore, wouldn't each instance owner get the money? Thus making this like "each instance owner gets $5"?
This goes to the main developer, which is a person in Canada. But I think they have a few collaborators that will likely get on board more now that they want to set up a non-profit (?) foundation to manage the Pixelfed codebase and IP.
The fundraising was for the development of Pixelfed's source code. e.g. adding new features, bug fixing, etc. - not for currently hosted servers and their infrastructure. So it went to @dansup.