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Pixelfed Smashes Kickstarter Campaign Goal on Day One

After years of hardcore development, the Pixelfed project is taking a big next step by seeking crowdfunding dollars on Kickstarter.

Some remarkable stretch goals include facilitating full-time development, hiring additional people to work on the project, and creating a non-profit Pixelfed Foundation. While Dansup pulls a small amount every month in user donations, as well as NGI Grants, he finally feels that it’s time to grow the organization and kick development in gear. Parental Controls is a new feature funded by the NGI Assure program, a spin-off of NLNet geared towards a variety of solutions for problems the next-generation Internet will face.

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