That’s literally not my choice, as I said in the comment you dug up in my history.

I shame those whose decisions make things worse for everyone else.

Once again, not saying it “can’t” be used for anything, it is just a strange choice because it’s not “kickstarting” anything. The pupose of Kickstarter (and other crowdfunding sites) is to generate the necessary funds to bring something into existence. It’s already going. It’s like using it to sell products that are already on store shelves. Like, why do I need this? Why wouldn’t I just go to the store and buy it? I don’t understand the purpose.

In other words, why don’t they just have a donation page like everyone else?

Have these games already launched and are available for purchase on the store?

I didn’t say anything about what should or should not be allowed. It just doesn’t make sense.

someone is tarnishing the sacred name of a kickstarter campaign

Wow. You really missed the mark on that one. I don’t know why would you think I was making that point instead of the very clearly more sensible “it’s not what it’s for”.

In other words, why don’t they just have a donation page like everyone else?

It’s almost like I already did read it and it didn’t answer the question.

“Kickstarter” is supposed to be a crowdfunding campaign to “kickstart” a project, not string it along.

I don’t understand. These both already exist. What is the Kickstarter for?

Maybe consider getting a phone that doesn’t require a paid developer account for the privilege of distributing software.

Would if I could but I deleted my account and Reddit has been blocking my connection for months anyway.

They’re not cut/paste copies, they’re rebuilt from the ground up. The UI is similar because they want to retain familiarity and decrease barriers to entry. Much like Lemmy.

Agreed. Bluesky-style customizable algorithms (I’ve played around with creating these myself) in conjunction with “recommended follows” curated by the instance admin would go a long way.

I actually agree. Some of these federated services are fundamentally different and when they interact, shit can get weird. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think, for example, Sharkkey shouldn’t interact with Mastodon, because they are both microblogging platforms, but I wouldn’t want to see a picture of a tweet from Mastodon on Pixelfed.

It does but like every federated service, it can also choose to defederate from another specific instance, and as a user you may or may not object to that.

That’s weird, I don’t know, sorry.

And if you didn’t already know, you now know about the Streisand effect.

Pixelfed doesn’t have any sort of “communities” or other way to curate content (not even hashtags) so you’re just going to see whatever people are posting.

As another commentor mentioned, you can join a specific instance intended for a specific type of post, but there’s nothing stopping someone from joining there and posting selfies other than good will.

I dunno. I don’t really even care much for PixelFed myself.

It’s under the social feed.

Yeah again, assuming everything is kosher on your instance, they can only scoop up what your instance, and you, make available.

Anything you make publicly available should be considered to be immortalized. Forever.

But with the advent of a hundred different websites like archive.org and now all these AI sites, you should assume that about the whole internet, I suppose.

I wish there was a truly private social media but it looks like Signal stories is about as close as we get.

Ahhh I’m sure I’ve read something about it but I’m not the best person to ask.

I know it’s possible because you can sign into Pixelfed with your Mastodon account right now.