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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 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.
We currently have four projects to showcase for 2025:
- Pixelfed is our flagship & challenger for Instagram, and other photo based platforms.
- Loops is a challenger for Tiktok, and other video based platforms.
- Sup is a challenger for WhatsApp/Snapchat, and other instant message platforms.
- Pubkit is the essential ActivityPub toolset for developers building new online experiences in the fediverse.
Pixelfed/Loops/Sup/Pubkit isn’t a ambitious dream or vaporware – they’re here today – and we need your support to continue our mission and shoot for the moon to be the best social communication platform in the world. The success of this Kickstarter will allow the primary developer Daniel to focus his attention full time on building the ecosystem, and grow the team to support the future of these projects.
As of January 24th, this project has raised $55,000 of their $34,749 goal. This project has 43 days left to raise as much as it can. For a pledge of $10, you will get a thank you e-mail. For a pledge of $50, you will get private preview access. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?
