Developers behind Instagram, Tiktok, and Whatsapp's pixelfed, loops, and SUP open source are currently collecting funds to promote further development of apps in Kickstarter.
This trio is a part of the growing open -minded web, which is also known as a Fediverse equipped with the same ActivityPub protocol used in X alternative Mastodon. The latter, which was previously known as Twitter sold to ELON MUSK in October 2022, increased and used in the Egyptian statement of X, following the US presidential election, increased and used.
Open source and distributed apps such as Mastodon and Bluesky (use new ones in the protocol) a few months and years after its sales are alternatives of intensive social media apps controlled by Musk and Musk. We are continuing to increase the number of user base. Mark Mark Zuckerberg.
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Currently, Daniel Supernau, a developer based in Canada behind the Federation app that challenges the Social Media Empire in Meta, is looking for funds for continuous development and support of his open social community. 。
“Help the control of the controls to the people's hands!” He said in Mastodon's post on Thursday's release on Thursday.
At the time of writing, the campaign has passed the original goal and has raised $ 58,383 so far.
Image Credit: Loop/Daniel Supernow
SuperNault wants his series of apps to reach the first 1 billion people in FedIVERSE, but of course, there is still a long way before they achieve their lofty goals. Pixelfed has existed for many years, but for example, a 1.0 -version mobile app has just been launched earlier this month, and the loop is still in Alpha Testflight on Apple. On the other hand, SUP has not been released yet, but it is said to be “released soon” according to the Instagram page.
Both the loop and SUP will be released to the Kickstarter supporters.
Image Credit: SUP/DANIEL SUPERNAULT
The fourth project, PUBKIT, is also part of these initiatives and provides tool sets to support developers of FedIVERSE.
Includes interactive tools and test frameworks, setting a reception tray for mocking popular activities in services, taking real -time activities and debugging, and inspecting the implementation of HTTP signature. Includes debugging and verification tools.
Image Credit: Pubkit/Daniel SuperNault
This is the first time that SuperNault has focused on Kickstarter to support these efforts, aiming to benefit from Pixelfed Foundation. (The stretch goal of the Kickstarter campaign is to register the Pixelfed Foundation as a non -profit organization and grow the team beyond volunteers).
If you succeed, this campaign will provide your blog app as an alternative to Tumblr or LiveJournal at one point in the future.
This fund also helps apps to manage new users. According to the details of the campaign shared with TechCrunch, the main pixelfed instance of Pixelfed.Social (Mastodon, anyone can execute Pixelfed Server) has more than 200,000 users thanks to the launch of the mobile app.
The new fund will enhance the storage, CDN, and computing power required for growing user -based and help accelerate development. In addition, they support the modest, security, privacy, and safety programs needed by social apps, and supports Superno to dedicate time to the app and fediver's entire fediver.
As part of that effort, SuperNault wants to introduce E2E encryption into FedIVERSE.