@kirby @malakai @11112011 @Percona @Percona Gleason can't help it: he gets riled up, sputters, it falls flat, then he retreats into defensive sarcasm, then he comes back later and says "Actually, I was just having fun, this was all a joke." and goes back to writing an incompetently cargo-culted Twitter UI to sit on top of a backend he doesn't understand.

He's more concerned with activism than hacking, so he's used to doing simple things that are anger-driven and result in nothing, then being patted on the back for his efforts. The way protesting works is to just yell louder than the enemy (where the enemy is anyone saying something you don't like), so he can't get past that style of interaction.

Way back when he botched tags in replies, I just barely noticed it and said "Did Soapbox change how replies work? That's terrible" and he found the thread and dumped some lengthy screed and declared me an enemy of progress. This was before he got kicked off the Pleroma gitlab (by which point this same cycle had played out about a dozen times), so I was a little surprised. "This code sucks" is something any actual coder will hear and say about twenty times a day: you can't take it personally, you have to evaluate the code on its own terms.

This is just how his brain is wired. He shouts and gets angry and is then congratulated by other vegans or feminists or whoever for being angrier than the counter-protestors. Anyway, something weird is going on with Frantech. Lossy net on the way to one of them and 100% packet loss to another one, so that's a more interesting mystery than Gleason.
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