Get rid of dead? Open source alternatives for Instagram, Tiktok and WhatsApp to collect donations on Kickstarter

Developer Baksalfid,, EpisodesAnd sipNow it has become open source of Instagram, Tiktok and WhatsApp, respectively Raple money on kickstarter To support further development for applications.

The trio is part of the growing open social web network, also known as Fed Area, supported by the same Activitypub protocol that is used by X Stroke. And the latter saw Increase subscriptions And its use after the company previously known as the name Selling Twitter to Elon Musk In October 2022 and during X displacement Which followed the American presidential elections.

In the months and years after this sale, applications are open source and decentralized applications such as Mastodon and Ploski (Which uses the latest AT Protocol), continued to develop the rules of its users, as people sought to find alternatives to the central social media applications controlled by billionaires such as Mask and Mark Zuckerberg from Meta.

When seeing writing on the wall, dead also realized that she needed to plant a science in the universe. This led to the launch of its rival X in 2023, which is called Instagram topicsWhich is in the phase to merge With Activitypub.

Now, Daniel Supranelet, the Canadian developer who stands behind the unified applications that challenge the META social media empire, is seeking money to continue development and support his open social societies.

“Help us restore control to the hands of the people!” He said in a job On Massoudon Where he declared Cake Starter Thursday start.

Until the time of writing this report, the campaign raised $ 58,383 so far. While the target was overlooked on Kickstarter, Supernaut said he hoped to raise one million dollars or more so that he can employ a small team.

Supernault wants his collection of applications the first in the world to reach a network of one billion people, but of course, there is still a long way to cut it before they can achieve this noble goal. Although Pixelfed has been present for years, I just launched Version 1.0 of the mobile phone application earlier this month, for example, and Episodes It is still in the alpha test on Apple test trip. sipAt the same time, it has not been released yet, but it is said to be “soon” according to his page on Instagram.

Loops and SUP will be released for Kickstarter supporters.

Fourth project, PopkitIt is also part of these efforts, as it offers a set of tools to support developers around the world.

It includes interactive tools and test frameworks, allowing developers to ridicule common activities on their service, preparing a mailbox to accommodate activities and correct errors in actual time, and tools to check HTTP signing applications and correct and verify their mistakes.

This is the first time that Supernault has resorted to Kickstarter to help with these efforts, which also aims to benefit the PixelFed.

The goal extended to Cake Starter campaign It is the registration of the PixelFed as a non -profit organization and its team’s development to the volunteers. This can help address the problem as Supernault is the only failure of the project. Which raised fears In light of the latter behavior.

Mastodon CEO, Eugene Rushko, made a similar decision Earlier this month To move to a non -profit structure.

If the campaign succeeds, it will also finance an application as a substitute for Tumblr or Livejournal at some point in the future.

Money will also help applications to manage new users flow. on Pixelfed.socialThe main PixelFed, (such as MASTDON, anyone can run the PixelFed server), there are now more than 200,000 users, thanks to this in part to launch the mobile phone application, according to the details of the campaign that was shared with Techcrunch. The server is now the second largest server in the world, behind Mastodon.social only, according to network statistics from Fedy DP.

New funds will help expand storage space, CDN networks and computer energy needed for the growing user base and accelerate the development process. In addition, they will help Supernault to customize more of its time to applications and diversity as a whole while expanding moderation, security, privacy and safety programs that social applications need.

As part of its efforts, Supernault also wants to provide E2E’s encryption to the Federal Federation.