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I've received 5 VC offers "to chat" regarding Pixelfed in the past few days.

Not for sale.

Pixelfed belongs to the people.

I'd rather be broke and true to my beliefs, than sell out.

That's why I'm organizing a Kickstarter to fund the ethical development of Pixelfed, Loops and more.

It's time that someone stood up to them, instead of joining them.

Are you with me?

kickstarter.com/projects/pixel…

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Rachel E. S. Lösche

@Gustodon Can you give me the gist of your concern? I really want to be 100% on board with this loops pixelfed project as a FOSS ethical replacement for instagram. I'm thinking whatever might be necessary to make it work like that will take lots of eyes on these details and I think the developer @dansup has his heart in the right place and will care if there are details he might want to reconsider, especially during these critical initial conditions
@dansup @Ω 🌍 Gus Posey
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Tim W RESISTS

"bro", find yourself some humility. "Chats" with VCs are a dime a dozen, and you literally compared yourself to Jobs earlier today. I hope you're going to bring on some actual people with actual ethics to make that ethical development thing happen...

Take it down a notch. The excessive self-promotion and ego is going to be your downfall.

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John Lusk

Consider a 501(c)(3)?

(I know it's probably a pain.)

[Edit: yes, royal PITA. investopedia.com/articles/fina… ]

5 Steps to Forming a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Corporation

Learn the challenges of forming and operating an official nonprofit organization, which does not pay income tax on its earnings or received donations.
Amy Fontinelle (Investopedia)
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just small circles 🕊

this is a super decision. 🙏

Follow Mastodon's trajectory and opportunity to do one better, where a collective commons helps share the burdens as well as the joys. With community to delegate the chores, and help foster and guarantee pixelfed and loop's long-term sustainably. Increase the bus factor, before you burn out. A single person is not invincible, a united movement might be.

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BicyclingBen

have you considered making the organisation a co-operative? Users and contributors could become a member for a $/€ and have say in how it's run and the community then owns it. You also have the ability to raise share capital from members (which you can limit so no one has too much stake) to fund the org/project, but every member still only gets one vote, so no one can wield more power over what the project does. You can also put limits on how much share capital can be withdrawn at once, so no one can pull the rug out from under the project either. Just a thought :blobcatthink:
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Jonas R. (er/ihm)

"Pixelfed, Loops and more" - you're developing something besides Pixelfed and Loops? Wow.

Small grammar mistake on Kickstarter: "Beautiful sharing platforms that puts you first." Either single "platform" or verb in plural "put".

I think it's the first time I read there's a "Pixelfed Foundation". I thought it was mostly just you. And the contact email is a dot com address, instead of using the existing .org domain?

I'm curious about Pixelfed's path forward! Looking forward to it.

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