No, I don’t think he is sleazy or have ill-intentions. I think he genuinely wants to do good things.

The problem it’s just that he lacks focus and he worries more about feeling validated than dealing with the daily grind of continuously improving his product. As soon as any of his projects start getting a minimal amount of interest and people start depending on what he has promised, he finds himself some “new” project to be busy with. At the same time, he still feels possessive about his creations, so it’s hard for him to just delegate away any significant part of the system.

I hope that the successful kickstarter makes him realize that shit got real and that he has is already got the validation that he was seeking, and that the money is enough to get him surrounded by good people who are a bit more focused on “proper” project management.

down votes use “Dislike” which is not used in the ActivityPub language

Dislike is an Activity type defined by ActivityStreams, which is the basis of the ActivityPub vocabulary.

There was a reason given, but it smells of bovine excrement: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/114041543384358354.

When probed a bit more about it, the silence was deafening.

It’s the third or forth spammer from diggita.com this week. @filippodb@diggita.com are you aware that your instance is being used by spammers? Can you please tighten up your registration policies?

Bio: “Your Digital Workshop. We build websites and host them, as well as create content for your social media.”

Posts: all on a bunch of different communities. All of them short, just one or two sentences.

Ironically, this account’s bio and its history is screaming “I am a LLM posting a bunch of AI slop”.

And they are either in for one of the following:

• a $30 Million lesson where they learn that they will have to reinvent ActivityPub in order to be “properly” decentralized
• a rug pull where they come up with a second relay like Bluesky but fork to give exclusive access for large institutions and the enterprise.