earlier this year, for a few reasons, I was pretty depressed (I basically quit working in tech and decided to recenter on things I was actually interested in, which was largely inspired by a large chunk of my life savings got burned by a techbro when they were supposed to be saving the business, it's a long story, I've talked about it before)...

and, honestly, being able to participate in a project like Pleroma at that time was very helpful in terms of getting my mind back into a happier place.

sometimes, you need something *new* and *different* in order to get excited about things again...

so, I am glad that @lain started this thing, it has been very fun to hack on, I've learned a new programming language, made contributions to a W3C standard and I've also made a lot of friends in the process. not bad, if I do say so myself...

anyway, that's all I have to say...