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Good day all! We have another #episode of #FiresideFedi tomorrow, Saturday April 5th at 1200 Eastern UTC-4.

My #guest this time will be @dansup @dansup ! You might have heard of #PixelFed or #Loops or #Sup or #fediDB or any of his other many projects!

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I'm so thankful for @shlee and our other team members for helping so much in so many ways, it's special to have such an amazing team.

I couldn't ask for a better group of dreamers by my side

Pixelfed DMs are getting a huge makeover!

Group chats, share from feeds, media attachments, realtime presence features and more

Like way more, think PixelTime (video chat) and Sup integration

I keep hearing that Sup shouldn't exist because X exists.

I made Sup to replace Snapchat and Facebook Messenger in my own friend group

I think it might be useful to other friend groups or families too, being that you can join with an email or Pixelfed/Loops or Mastodon account

Not only that, but Sup will be modular, allowing for rich integration with pretty much any other chat platform (Signal, Matrix, Delta, etc)

It's like Beeper, but federated and open source.

Sup Early Access

Our Advocate & higher Kickstarter tiers will gain early access to Sup later this month!

Experience our open source, modular messenger built for true privacy.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=1hx75e

Can't wait for my first conference talk, I have so much to discuss

The Pixelfed family of apps includes Pixelfed, Loops, Sup and a few others in development.

We're not just a one trick pony, I have a vision for how we can replicate the most popular platforms and give them back to the people.

It all starts with you, the community.

Not only do you have a voice, but it doesn't require shareholder or board member status to make that change!

Are you with us? Boost for humanity.

Want to help fund the future of social media?

We're excited to announce our extended stretch goals as we continue to grow:

$100,000 (UNLOCKED) - Infrastructure Enhancement

$200,000 - Pixelfed Foundation
- Creating a sustainable structure for long-term development and community governance

$300,000 - Team Expansion
- Hiring additional devs
- Building a dedicated support team

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=1hx75e

Interesting. @dansup confirms that #Sup will be a client that supports multiple instant messaging protocols like #XMPP and #Matrix.

Elsewhere, he indicates #IRC support as well.

I wonder how this will integrate with #ActivityPub.

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/dansup/statuses/113912544050454840

sup is like Facebook Messenger, but for the fediverse.

Connect all of your fediverse accounts on one app, and connect with people on other platforms or protocols, like IRC.

It's also going to be fully open source, and modular with a simple plugin system to add support for other fediverse platforms and more.

A universal, open, federated messenger.

Built by @PixelFed

"#Pixelfed, #Loops, & #Sup, #opensource alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, are now raising funds on #Kickstarter to fuel the apps’ further development.
The trio is part of the growing #opensocial web, also known as #thefediverse, powered by the same #ActivityPub protocol used by X alternative Mastodon. The latter saw increased signups and use after Twitter sold to Elon Musk in Oct2022 and during the X exodus that followed the U.S. election."

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/24/ditching-meta-open-source-alternatives-to-instagram-tiktok-and-whatsapp-fundraise-on-kickstarter/