Pardon my ignorance, I am new to the fediverse and have no idea what I’m doing. But, when I signed up for loops on the website, I had to wait 3 days for them to send me a link to download a test-flight app for loops. I cannot recall if TestFlight is standard on iPhone or if I downloaded it previously.

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[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 3 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

did he at least get a dollar value first?

edit: I honestly would have pursued it as far as legally possible first just to know how much of a fuck you I was sending ... can someone offer to buy Bluesky now?

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[+] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -32 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Wtf. That pixelfed asshole was writing this shit as closed source before?

[–] dai@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah man what an arsehole giving away free things, spending time making free things for everyone to use for free.

If he wants to keep his code private until he's ready to release it - that's somewhat up to him. The repo is a step in the right direction, just give it some time.

Looking through the git repo the ignore is lopping off quite a number of files too (server) however I'm not sure how much of those are things like secrets, cache, other scripts and so forth.

[–] lori@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, it's kind of up to him. His NLNet grants require it to be open source and dictate what license he uses, but I don't know the details to know if that just means it has to be open sourced in order to receive the grant (awarded upon completion not ahead of time) or right away.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does the grant apply to just pixelfed, or loops as well?

[–] lori@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

He has gotten at least three grants in the past that I saw on the NLNet website for Pixelfed, but none were listed as active when I looked. However, since you have to complete your project to get paid out I didn't see a way to know if he actually received any or all of those grants. The current active grant is just for Loops. I believe the old Pixelfed grants also required certain licensing and the project being open source though.

Also, as of this morning, he was posting about how in order to make Loops open source and federated he needs to hit $200k on his Kickstarter. However, he was previously challenging people who were claiming it's not currently federated or open sourced. So now the story is that it's not yet and he needs more money to make that happen when previously he was claiming it already was both of those things.

It's...a mess for sure.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, and he just banned hazel again on loops. https://social.besties.house/@h/113966323700310342

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