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A free and ethical photo sharing platform, powered by ActivityPub federation.
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## Official Documentation
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The ways you can communicate on the project are below. Before interacting, please
read through the [Code Of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
-* IRC: [#pixelfed](irc://chat.freenode.net/pixelfed) on irc.freenode.net
* Mastodon: [@pixelfed@mastodon.social](https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed)
* E-mail: [hello@pixelfed.org](mailto:hello@pixelfed.org)
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- [NLnet Foundation](https://nlnet.nl) and [NGI0
Discovery](https://nlnet.nl/discovery/), part of the [Next Generation
-Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative.
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+Internet](https://ngi.eu) initiative.