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 - dansup-open-letter.github.io/a… - is gross.
Dansup's treatment of Tobi, one of the GoToSocial devs, and the GTS project in general, recently has also been gross - mastodon.art/@welshpixie/11395…
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#pixelfed #loops #fedimeta #dansup #fediadmin
Dansup: "The future is federated, the source is open [...] and PixelFed stands proudly with every ActivityPub project"(mastodon.social/@dansup/113951… , archived at archive.is/uPdyG )
Meanwhile:
Loops (a Dansup project) doesn't federate (see replies to the link above)
FediDB isn't opensource (web.archive.org/web/2024123008…)
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@beacondb@mapstodon.space The issue is I'm using a paid theme for the current version, so I have to rewrite it with an open source one to not violate any licences. https://www.creative-tim.com/product/vue-argon-dashboardMastodon
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There's a thread of receipts of Dansup's continued shitty behaviour going all the way back to 2019 when he was being called out for allowing Pixelfed to federate with fascist instances (and responded to that with 'we should put politics aside'): weirder.earth/@thief/113953830…
If you're a Pixelfed or Loops user, know that the developer of those apps is a racist, transphobic, bully.
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in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • • •Free, open source software gives us an opportunity to move away from corporate-owned projects that inflict corporate ideals on us. It gives us an opportunity to do things differently - to approach development ethically and with compassion, to prioritise things like accessibility, community safety, and protection of marginalised people.
Unfortunately, the people who are most able to work on FOSS projects are those with the most privilege; who don't lose all of their energy, motivation,
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in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • • •and money fighting constant oppression and marginalisation; and the people with the most privilege are less likely to consider things like accessibility and inclusivity. The people BEST suited to FOSS projects, those who understand marginalisation, who understand the need for accessibility, who understand why strong moderation tooling is important for protecting against abuse and harassment, are those with the least amount of energy for working on those projects because society -
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in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • • •places them at a huge disadvantage. Who has time for developing free software when you're struggling just to survive because of the colour of your skin, your gender, your disability?
So when we see something like this - potentially great FOSS projects being managed by people who are racist, who are transphobic, who are abusive, who wield their power and ego to punch down, we need to confront it. We don't all have the ability to 'just fork it' -
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Apparently his behaviour - constantly ignoring Black folk calling out his cultural appropriation, making transphobic posts when drunk (and blaming it on being drunk), punching down and being abusive at other small fedi devs - is just him getting 'free advertising':
archive.is/5w7z9
And the people calling him out on his bad behaviour are just 'fediverse trolls:
archive.is/9bz9G
Len [art] ♡
in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • • •first he says GtS added the stat randomizer feature for clout: archive.ph/ANEy9
But now they're referenced as an example of how to prevent crawling for changes he made as a direct response to that same feature they implemented: archive.ph/txKLl
These are not the actions of a transparent and trustworthy person
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in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • • •and some things are just not worth forking
from what i've heard pixelfed is a mediocre (at best) php app, and an absolute pain to set up
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in reply to Ember • • •@Ember Yet, it is popular. About 25% of the monthly active fediverse users are on pixelfed: fedidb.org/
This has all to do with people who want a replacement for Instagram.
I'm happy that the model of the fediverse insulates us at least partly from the behaviour of some devs...
FediDB, Fediverse Network Statistics
fedidb.orgEmber
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in reply to Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator • • •dansup: "I never said I was nice 😈 obv…" - Mastodon | Ghostarchive
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Unknown parent • • •There are also a bunch of moderation bugs too, one that's been open since 2023 - you can't report comments, can't report remote profiles, remote reports from masto aren't saved, and none of the 'report spam' options are clickable.
mastodon.art/@Curator/11386660…
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@paco Hope Dan sees this post so he sees how easy it is to go 'Oops, I've done that, now I know it's bad so I'll stop'.
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