@Tony @MK2boogaloo

> none of the admins are actually pushing for monetizing the platform

Not relevant; he says he's trying to push mass adoption, and if that really is the case, he's doing it wrong. What the admins are doing is the admins' business.

> From a functional, user standpoint, I think soapbox is probably the most user friendly.

It's dogshit on a paper plate as far as I can tell, but that's Gleason's business, not mine.

> no one is actually making an effort to do so as far as I can tell.

This is not a place where people are likely to make any money. Some of the commie instances have whales because they are appealing to the upper-middle class and take "donations" but anyone else is in the red. FSE has never taken donations, it's all out of pocket. (I think the closest that happened was graf sent me a couple of PSUs but I paid him back a week later.)

Anyway, my thoughts on Soapbox are my thoughts: I'm not a user nor a contributor nor a fan and won't be in any of those categories in the future, so I don't want to spend time discussing it. I'm writing code.