Pixelfed Smashes Kickstarter Campaign Goal on Day One - We Distribute
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After years of hardcore development, the Pixelfed project is taking a big next step by seeking crowdfunding dollars on Kickstarter.

Pixelfed has been making incredible strides over the past few years, and has begun developing a suite of different platforms and services for the #Fediverse. After just one day on Kickstarter, they’ve already smashed their campaign goal.

But they still need your help!

  • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I actually wrote a bit about this in the past: https://deadsuperhero.com/2021/10/peertubes-content-wasteland/

    TL;DR - Yeah, it’s possible to fill up your local catalogue of remote entries really quickly through instance following. The problem is not a shortage of instances or videos, the problem is that cutting it down to the good stuff requires a lot of active curation. It’s very easy to just open the firehose and drown in a never-ending stream of junk.

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Interesting. I feel like that might be less of an issue for the microblog fediverse though? It doesn’t have the same problem with content generation

      • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Yeah, I’d say it might have more to do with the fact that making texts posts is a lot easier than making videos. It’s still possible to introduce too much noise, regardless of medium, but there’s a lot less friction when the medium is simpler and doesn’t require much work.