@dansup I think you could save yourself a lot of trouble by making fewer announcements about things you're going to be adding to the software, or about growing your team etc. Or making the announcements you do make less bombastic and sweeping. It's nice to build hype if you're trying to attract vc investors, I suppose (though you've stated multiple times that you're not interested in that), but the problem with hype is that it can easily curdle into disappointment if expectations aren't met. For example, the "huge moderation update" you announced for this month doesn't seem anywhere in sight yet: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113979358398119425. People may have created a pixelfed server a few weeks ago thinking that the release of these functionalities was imminent, since that's what you said in your announcement, and they'll end up losing trust in you. You've also announced several times that you'll release backend source code for loops imminently, but the code in the repo is still just a stub, last time I checked. But things like this can easily be avoided if you're just more prudent and realistic about your timetable. Nobody is pushing you to announce features all the time, afaict. In my experience people generally like it when you promise less, and then deliver what you do promise, with maybe a little extra as a treat.