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.
It’s almost like you could check out the linked campaign and answer that question with a couple of minutes reading.
The money goes to supporting pixelfed, loops and sup development, with the goal being financing full time development for the entire team.
It’s almost like I already did read it and it didn’t answer the question.
“Kickstarter” is supposed to be a crowdfunding campaign to “kickstart” a project, not string it along.
So games that have a demo or an alpha build should not be allowed on kickstarter since they technically already exist?
I didn’t say anything about what should or should not be allowed.
Oh no, someone is tarnishing the sacred name of a kickstarter campaign by checks notes raising money to scale up a project that can benefit everyone (thus kickstarting the scaling effort) instead of selling a $250 plastic brick that generates far-infrared waves using no electricity in order to “stabilise” your car’s battery which you velcro the brick on top of (okay, that one was an IndieGoGo, but same difference).
Wow. You really missed the mark on that one. I don’t know why would you think I was making that point instead of the very clearly more sensible “it’s not what it’s for”.
In other words, why don’t they just have a donation page like everyone else?
Wow that looks like a scam.
That’s my point: Kickstarter and IndieGoGo is filled with extraordinarily obvious scams, yet this person’s trying to act like there’a some sanctity to the semantics rather than the spirit of them.