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  I got way too distracted with FediDB, my bad. The mobilizon team asked why they weren't listed on the onboarding tool, so I spent hours redesigning it, then finished the globe feature, based on the map APIs. Sorry Pixelfed, sometimes I get carried away. 😬

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  You can even link to servers! https://fedidb.com/globe?server=loops.video #FediDB #FediDBGlobe

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  He's from fediverse, I can tell #ChoosinFediverse #EllaLangley

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  Globe: https://fedidb.com/globe Bold: https://fedidb.com/welcome?mode=bold Bots: https://fedidb.com/platform/bots It's not just stats anymore 😎

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  You have to be crazy to think you can take on Instagram, TikTok and Whatsapp. But as you can see, our alternatives are thriving. Never give up. 🚀

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  When I need to take a break, I code. https://fedidb.com/globe

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  Edit: It shipped! https://fedidb.com/globe I've dreamt of doing this for years, and I started building this earlier this summer. I had to ship a few backend updates to properly place nodes, relative to their ip address, and yeah, it was a journey. But it's about to ship 🔥 Meet the FediDB Globe, a live and interactive look at the fediverse, powered by the FediDB API #fediDB

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  I just discovered #SlowHorses and I'm hooked. Apple TV doesn't miss

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  three, gsap and react-native-reanimated/skia are like the holy trinity of a frontend magicians toolbelt We need more hackathons, let the real ones show what you can do without a prompt

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  I've been implementing GSAP in a few sites for extra polish, and it really adds a new dimension IMO. I used to use this at work for fancy websites aimed at the ultra wealthy, and I finally have a use for this for my own projects. It's wildly expressive, but takes a bit to get it right, iykyk.

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  I have one more early present for you all. So FediDB has a map, and will soon have an interactive fediverse globe page 👀 I'm almost finished, but in the meantime, take a gander at this cool thing: https://fedidb.com/map #FediDB

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/117603652521417219 I also came up with a way for software to describe support of many types of features and federation capability, with a source and version field that indicates when and where it was implemented. Why? To support the Feature Finder: https://fedidb.com/software/finder And also to support Software Comparisons: https://fedidb.com/software/compare?software=lemmy,mbin,piefed The best part? Anyone can contribute by logging in with their fedivers...

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  FediDB used to only list software that I manually approved, and it's because I wanted every one to have a description, logo and more info. That left the impression that there were only 70 fediverse projects. Then last month, I refactored everything to list every known software project. I didn't stop there, instead of curating a software + apps json files, I built a fedi wiki into FediDB. With a news feed, federated blog, bots and datasets. https://fedidb.com/news #fediDB

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  One more thing... Sometimes you may want to go beyond expectations. So I designed a bold mode for the newly redesigned FediDB.com onboarding tool. https://fedidb.com/welcome?mode=bold

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  I wrote a fediverse onboarding tool for newcomers, powered by the community curated FediDB database ✨ Please boost this, more people need to see this! https://fedidb.com/welcome

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  I wrote a fediverse onboarding tool, and I'm about to ship a much improved redesign and sorting logic! Take a peek at the existing design: https://fedidb.com/welcome The new design is much better, stay tuned 😎

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  Pixelfed admins can now search (local) users by `bio:` and `website:` keywords, including wildcards! This will make it easier to handle mass moderation actions (like suspending spammers), and we recently added username + ip signup bans. We are working on more tooling to make it easier to detect, mitigate and handle abusive, malicious and spam signups. More details soon! #pixelfed #safety

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  Found my old Sony VAIO laptop from 2009, this thing was a beast back in the day!

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  Did you know that FediDB tracks version releases and has a fancy dashboard for the biggest projects? https://fedidb.com/software/pixelfed/versions

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  Anyways, back to the regularly scheduled programming! I added a few more monitors to the Loops Status page! We're now tracking the API docs and CDN. It do be kinda wild how many parts power Loops, but they do power some pretty awesome features! https://status.loopsplatform.com

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  When I started building https://fedidb.com as a developer activitypub debug tool, I needed to get info about servers, and I noticed that thefederation.info was pretty slow and had a dated UI. So I built a crawler and started collecting stats. When I noticed that more people were checking stats, I spun out the dev tools to pubkit and made FediDB a fediverse database of stats. Now, many of those network stats sites have disappeared. But FediDB is still alive, and stronger than ever ✨

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  To the people who think I'm doing too much, spreading myself too thin or forgetting about Pixelfed: All of these projects were created to benefit or serve Pixelfed, Loops is separate for a reason, https://fedidb.com powers several aspects of Pixelfed, https://fediverse.info is an onboarding tool, https://respectfulplatforms.org is a charter of rights for the people. I believe in the social web, and spent years building platforms and services to help it thrive. Pixelfed is still my main fo...

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  Also, after the viral exposure of Pixelfed in January 2025, I got a dozen offers to sell, like 7 figures. That would be life changing money. I couldn't even entertain this though, I had a feeling some were proxies of Meta, that is nothing to them, the ability to shutdown another competitor. I never started this to sell out, I really believe in our mission, and how we can build safer and people centric alternatives. Pixelfed is proudly funded by people, like you! https://pixelfed.org/supp...

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  It did suck to see people accusing me of malicious intentions with Loops, that I would never publish the source code. So I made the difficult decision to take a year off from Pixelfed development to build Loops. The Pixelfed community did not like that, and were quite vocal about my promises for a better mobile app, bug fixes, better federation and account migration. So after FediCon 2026, I focused on Pixelfed. We shipped 14 releases since then 🚀 https://fedidb.com/software/pixelfed/versio...

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  In early 2025, people were upset that NLnet was funding Loops and the source code wasn't public yet*. So after attending FediCon in August of 2025, I came home and began writing the server for Loops, and a new mobile app, both shipped in October/November of 2025. In March 2026, Loops shipped Starter Kits and Mastodon took our implementation and built Featured Collections! https://blog.joinloops.org/introducing-starter-kits/ * - We didn't get paid until the source was public btw

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  Then, with the help of @shlee@aus.social, we launched the Pixelfed Kickstarter to fund the development of Pixelfed, Loops and Sup! We set the goal at $35,000 originally but increased that to $50,000 and it was reached in two days! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks

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  Then, on Jan 21, 2025 I wrote an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg. That also went viral. https://pixelfed.social/p/dansup/787255857567136575

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  January 2025 was so crazy. I launched the Pixelfed apps in the App/Play Store, then Meta blocked Pixelfed urls and when I posted about it, it went viral and got tons of press. Pixelfed went viral on Bluesky, trending for days, and shot up on the App Store charts. Then I launched the Kickstarter. Pixelfed.social did stay up and went from 20k MAU to 300K MAU in one week, becoming the largest fedi server by MAU. I learned so much from that...

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  I can also write a thread of posts, or schedule a post on Mastodon with #hashtag and mention autocomplete and highlighting. https://columnly.social even supports markdown on some platforms 🔥 #Columnly

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  With https://columnly.social I can be logged into 4 mastodon.social accounts, 3 pixelfed.social accounts and 1 loops.video account At the same time, and switch between them with one tap 😎