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Ditching Meta? Open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp fundraise on Kickstarter | TechCrunch

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Daniel Supernault is launching a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for his open social apps.

He hopes to raise $1 million or more so he can hire a small team.

The Pixelfed and Mastodon apps are part of the growing open social web, also known as the fediverse, powered by the ActivityPub protocol used by X alternative Mastodon .

The Canadian -based developer wants to become the first to reach a network of a billion people.