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PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 weeks agoPeriodic reminder that shitting on someone who’s making free software and giving it away is an entitled, counterproductive, selfish thing to do.
I have no interest in using Pixelfed or Loops, it’s just not my thing. But the idea of criticizing the person who’s making them because of a variety of made-up reasons is a bunch of crap.
Also, fedi developers should get paid. They’re doing work. They should get paid. The idea that someone who’s optimizing the video pipeline for the next ad network can make $150k a year and it’s a problem if Dansup fills up his fundraiser because people love the stuff he’s already done is, also, a bunch of crap.
iltg@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
you are not engaging with the argument, just stating ideals
fedi developers should get paid? yes, look at gts and mastodon
fedi devs should also be held accountable of their fumbles
dansup showed quite some incompetence in handling security, delivering features, communicating clearly and honestly and treating properly third party devs
it’s fair for one person to not be able to handle a big software with big instance and big usercount. mastodon has a legal entity and a team, gts has no flagship instance, is aggressively open source and gathered a lot of contributors, dansup is winging it alone and failing
let’s just make a big fixed point of failure of dansup, what could go wrong … ?
check out mitra too, could probably use some funding because it’s transparent and delivers rather than promising the moon and delivering CVEs (but with a grant AND a kickstarter, maybe pay some other devs???)
like there are thousands of fedi projects, give 10 bucks to the little dev doing it for fun in their bedroom, more money will not make dansup more competent
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 4 weeks ago
Correct. I’ve engaged in the past with people who are convinced Dansup is committing some kind of horrible sins. I examined the arguments in detail and decided they were bullshit.
I don’t really feel like rehashing the arguments again, but you can read if you want to see them:
ponder.cat/post/1151008/1352919
ponder.cat/post/2151188
I actually wanted to find some more of the more transparently bullshit ones, but they had been removed by mods because they were transparently bullshit. Like I said, I’ve seen enough criticisms and had them turn out to be bullshit to reach my limit, there was one earlier today that I looked into a decent amount of detail, too.