Not sure I understand the motivation for an ActivityPub messenger like sup. Seems like XMPP and Matrix already take care of the federated messenger space.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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I mean, it'd be nice not to need multiple identities to message.
Nobody is going to be like "add me on matrix of your wasn't to message me"
People often use DM features on twitter, insta etc
But you can already message/DM someone through Mastodon, Lemmy or whatever, and that's fine. I don't see the value proposition of sup.
This shows how unfair the tech landscape is. The Kickstarter is currently at 45000$. Meta & Co generate that in seconds through their advertising or some billionaire gains that through investments in under a second.
Hopefully this money will allow that ONE DUDE to get some help in managing these apps. I know he has maybe a couple of collaborators now, but maybe they can get some more dedicated people to build out the apps. It's a lot for one or two people to try and spin up two apps at once.
The Pixelfed app that dropped last week, for example, doesn't even have a button to view the global feed. It's better to just use the main website of whatever server you are on right now, even on your mobile device.
Yeah. I think a lot of federated services are struggling with the idea that they need to build a system to handle the growth, not just treat it like a personal project.
Just $500 from their funding goal! 🎉
Edit: goal met!
I have a feeling this is going to be a big one! Just did my part. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=thanks-copy
If they can deliver. But hey, we're the VCs now. Not everything succeeds.
Pixelfed has been live for a while and Loops is in beta.
For my invite the other and whole not as fully featured as some corp owned short form video apps, it looks good & has multiple things over the others
I was excited about this earlier today until I learned the creator of pixelfed is shit talking other fediverse developers and has an ego. Now I don’t feel like donating
Source?
Not saying you’re wrong, but I’m trying to be more critical online.
Pubkit.net looks quite useful. I may be testing that out soon.