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by messo 1868 days ago
It is not a company, but a federated network – anyone can run their own server and interact with the all other nodes (much like email). The software is open source and is a community effort, although the lead developer got a grant [1] that allows him to spend time to improve the project over time.

1: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed#pixelfed-sponsors