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- Embed this notice@hj @fristi @dielan I'm going to be really blunt with you for a bit, since you seem incapable of retaining context across posts
I'm going to lay out why, precisely, I do not want to work under the banner of pleroma and why I do not believe you can recover, one last time, and you can never again claim that I didn't explain
1. the project lacks coherent leadership, and hence direction. you've stated that it's aiming to be "flexible" but not limited the scope in any way, leading to there being no defined niche, or image for what the software should be. it's a nebulous cloud that fits in "social" but does not know how to pick which bits to do
2. pleroma's brand is tainted. this cannot be denied, the sheer amount of hostility flowing both ways between developers and users have made it a toxic environment. the userbase leans"free speech" and that leaks into the projects goals when they exist
3. the project management is ill or undefined. this was exposed for all to see with the gleason thing. there is no consensus over what gets merged and who decides. this leads to PRs sitting untouched or wrongfully merged
4. there is no central community. this contributes massively to the above. the community has been fracturing for years with segments of the userbase unwilling to cooperate for varying reasons. this leads to a lack of contributors since it's likely that one segment does not want to assist another. thus adopting one segment and making something specifically for them will lead to far better results, and is ultimately my course of action
I'm not going to say anything good about soapbox, but they too have adopted one corner of the userbase
maybe it's time to accept your dream of a unified core that provides for everyone is dead, and it's not coming back