Well, as a person whose ass has been saved multiple times by mutual aid in the form of PayPal gifts...that's certainly a cruel hill he's chosen to plant a flag on.
People struggling to eat and keep a roof over their heads do NOT have any leeway to fuck around with half-assed FOSS payment pet projects, risking their banks freezing up and fucking over their survival.
I'm actually passionate about FOSS and I still think one of the main reasons it's not more widely used is because people look at a lot of the proponents and think, "Damn, what an asshole."
If I fart wrong and play around with shady payment apps, I could lose the only bank account I have, which is based on another country half a world away. Without it, I would be in *deep shit*, survival-wise. That's a pretty standard position for those asking for mutual aid!
This guy does not understand risk. JUST the kind of person I want to be weighing in on financial matters. /s
with all the folks lauding the move to #Pixelfed I'm gonna have to set a hard limit - the creator is anti-Black and a gaslighter, and demonstrably gives zero shits about safety and ethics.
@nicolasfolliot Dan runs pixelfed.social and pixelfed.art , but (as far as I know) all other pixelfed instances are run by other individuals, not by him. As long as you keep in mind that *any* pixelfed instance you join can't have strong moderation because of these bugs: mastodon.art/@Curator/11386660โฆ - other instances should be okay, depending on who runs them ๐
this pisses me off so much because if he was struggling he could just make his own damn mutual aid post, so he is literally complaining that other people's basic needs are being prioritized over his desire to be the next Mark Zuckerberg ๐ฅ Pixelfed and Loops could have been cool but now they're tainted with classism and ableism (and racism ofc, I've seen the other posts) bc they're associated with this asshole
Lack of responsibility by the moderator and the prevalence of spam & hostile accounts and the practice of bad actors makes the instance, as a whole, a threat to other servers and their users on the #fediverse .
bram dingelstad
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why is it always him lol
like imagine shitting on people in need of aid because you feel like people haven't given you Enough Money
he literally launched funding campaigns and got money.. what the fuck is he talking about lmao
inamruzui
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@bram vulpine labs doesn't get enough currently but do i shit on those who need mutual aid
Not really
Infact i often need mutual aid myself
But there's a joke in vulpine labs that anything dansup does we don't do
lea (๐ @ 39C3)
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Bee
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inamruzui
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and of course missing the point of free and open source
Infact
Donations is how things should be done and not monitizations
inamruzui
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dansup is someone who had LinkedInitis and took on a project under the guise of open source and federation
I say this as someone who tried to be funded by random shits on LinkedIn
Green tinted corneas infected their thinking and dont care about the well being of others
They also always miss the point of free and open source
Which is why it's best to operate off donations of those who understand the well being of others
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tillian ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฆ ACAB
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Mystery Babylon
in reply to EdenDestroyer • • •Well, as a person whose ass has been saved multiple times by mutual aid in the form of PayPal gifts...that's certainly a cruel hill he's chosen to plant a flag on.
People struggling to eat and keep a roof over their heads do NOT have any leeway to fuck around with half-assed FOSS payment pet projects, risking their banks freezing up and fucking over their survival.
I'm actually passionate about FOSS and I still think one of the main reasons it's not more widely used is because people look at a lot of the proponents and think, "Damn, what an asshole."
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Mystery Babylon
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This guy does not understand risk. JUST the kind of person I want to be weighing in on financial matters. /s
Mystery Babylon
in reply to Mystery Babylon • • •Not to just rant but wow. I don't think I've ever mocked struggling people for wanting security before.
I'm so glad I deleted my PixelFed.
๐ต๐ธ Mari
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he's also the creator/maintainer of pixelfed so plz let folks know to block it too
> The creator and admin of the flagship pixelfed instance is anti-Black and a gaslighter, and demonstrably gives zero shits about safety and ethics. spanner.works/@bouncinglime/11โฆ
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> Lots of receipts: dansup-open-letter.github.io/aโฆ
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> Further info: mastodon.art/@Curator/11396315โฆ
๐ต๐ธ Mari :nb_crossbow: (@bouncinglime@spanner.works)
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2025-02-07 14:47:53
Morgan โง๏ธ
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*Ada - Np-93/237
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on top of the take just being bad it's also extremely privileged.
people aren't hostile towards donating to web devs, most people just can't afford it.
for people that are actually in need of money, where they are actually about to lose their livelihood a lot more people make exceptions.
people are just conscious about where they're putting their money, the platform was never the problem.
also this is the guy that scammed nlnet labs by taking grant money and pissing it into the wind so...
tillian ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฆ ACAB
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WHAT THE FUCK???
WTF IS THIS WHEATLEY ASS BEHAVIOUR
ijo Tejo (thรฉo)
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ok so now we have confirmation that dansup does not actually give a shit, and that he's just an attention-seeking twerp.
maybe make a separate post so this information gets more """traction""" (erggh hate that word, but yknow what i mean)
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Different Drummer
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It's *always* dotSocial.
syzito.xyz/@DifferentDrummer/1โฆ
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2025-01-17 21:52:06