@jawsh @alex @Moon all i can say is that alex threw a fit over "you don't like my solution, it has to be my solution or nothing i'm not gonna do anything about it", i've seen him personally and openly insult fellow developer in pleroma gitlab thread, i've seen him verbatim say "fuck you" in pleroma gitlab thread, and I've been personally... i don't even know how to put it into words, basically he used me as an argument to defend his position, against my will, and when I objected to it it turned out he donated on my patreon several months ago, without my explicit knowledge of it, and implied that somehow, voluntarily donation without contract "hey do this work for me, i'll pay you for it", is him paying me to do some work for him which justified him using my voluntary work I did without even thinking about him, to defend him. Like even putting it into words is fucking weird, man.

It's all personal opinions really, but the point is - he's still able to contribute technically, and even before he was stripped of "maintaner" role he was able to, but the rest of the people working with him found him to be insufferable, which cost him his role and later access, and instead of making amends he just made it worse, just so that he could throw an even bigger fit.

I'm sure he's a great developer, and I've seen that he has... more skill than average people (unfortunately he hasn't been contributing to PleromaFE much where I reside the most so I can't say for sure), but contrary to what he says that "Open source is collaborative effort" or whatever, collabbing with him is pure pain (and pure pain accessories)