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Pixelfed Smashes Kickstarter Campaign Goal on Day One (wedistribute.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Pixelfed has been making incredible strides over the past few years, and has begun developing a suite of different platforms and services for the #Fediverse. After just one day on Kickstarter, they've already smashed their campaign goal.

But they still need your help!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (8 children)

It's helpful to be able to appreciate art without worrying too much about the artist. In history the number of genius artists who were bad people - it's basically off the scale.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (6 children)

This isn't art, it's a platform, it's a tool more akin to engineering than painting.

Would you have this same response for x, Facebook, or truth social?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It's a fair point. But then in the case of a piece of (literal) art created by a computer program, who was the artist if not the programmer? In legal terms software is a work of creativity like any other.

Perhaps the important factor is how many people are involved. To be art, there has to be a single artist.