Dan is constantly talking about buyout requests he's receiving for Loops and Pixelfed, so much so that it makes me a bit suspicious of those claims. Nearly every other post I see from his Mastodon feed is bragging about another alleged buyout offer, and how he's not for sale.

Has he ever shown proof of any of these offers he's received? It's not that I want to doubt him, but he's been very persistent with this claim and I think it's fair to scrutinize it at this point.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

it might be useless gossip but for some reason a lot of fedi has various problems with this guy. for various reasons… he just has like … off vibes?

i guess similar to how lemmy devs are marxist lenninists—at least making it open source means projects can be forked if the founders go off the deep end.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 15 points 6 hours ago

not just "off vibes", he posts a bunch of shit that people call him out on, and then deletes it

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 44 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It is a time of predatory billionaires grabbing all forms of media. It would not surprise me if he did get offers. It would also be very unprofessional to broadcast the valuation of Loops and Pixelfed while turning down the offer. It would be like recording and showing someone asking for a date and getting rejected.

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

He open sourced the "code". If you actually look in detail, there's no actual working code.

He also disabled issues on GitHub, so there's no way to report bugs (and thus discuss his code).

While he could be getting offers, everything about it just feels like a scam.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Could you elaborate? I'm not a developer but the repo does appear to be populated. Someone in the Mastodon replies said he might have forgotten to push some commits, are y'all alluding to the same thing?

I don't have the requisite competency to see what you're saying so I'd love more info on what you mean and why you think that

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 2 points 24 minutes ago* (last edited 24 minutes ago)

The repo is just full of configuration files and no actual working code. The backend code does not exist. The guy in mastodon thinks that dan forgot to upload his code to the github repo.

[–] m_f@discuss.online 29 points 11 hours ago

It wouldn't surprise me at all. Pixelfed got mainstream notice, and there's always someone willing to give you money. Pretty much every popular Firefox/Chrome addon developer gets emails about buying it, but those are usually just shady companies looking to push malware onto the existing install base.

Even apart from those, it wouldn't really surprise me to see some VC interest when Pixelfed hit #1 on the play store. They love the idea of glomming onto something that looks like a rocket and trying to ride it to the moon