David no longer posts here and I can hardly blame him, given some of the ill-informed and spiteful guff that has been flung around the past few months.
Part of this is down to some folk taking a throwaway remark and constructing elaborate conspiracy theories around their misconceptions.
David has posted quite a bit on Discord and much of it explains recent decisions and his thinking behind them. We would all do well to review this to help with our understanding of where we are, how we got here and where we are going.
To assist with this myself and Claude put together a wee bit of python that has trawled the #general-support, #general-chat and #bug-reports channels on Discord and extracted all posts by dirvine and replies to them since the arbitrary date of 17th April 2025.
get this doc with ant file download 65872897096fd5c95635da4b8e9b631cfaa06e6bcc671d2e5df33910d91689f0 dirvine-discord.txt
Maybe you could use the AntChain principle and link the weekly updates in a chain pointing to the previous updates, so if evil has a moment of rise and tries to rewrite history, we can preserve the truth of Davidās words?
I will probably stick the scripts up on github, so anyone can submit a PR to extract/display the info as they wish.
This can be trivially changed to grab all posts by any specific user, timeframe etc etc.
I would especially welcome PRs to improve the formatting.
If the current regulatory environment makes it impossible for a company like MaidSafe to launch a privacy focused anonymous native token, it would be better to move into a different regulatory environment, or work around it, or at least coherently talk about it instead of depicting the people who ask as bitching crybabies who dropped from the sky to create hurdles for the team to focus on the ācoreā and make it harder for the wee lassie in Africa to finally have a safe access to a couple of slowass apps
Itās not like, over the years, many people didnāt ask if David expects the big bro to sit and wait for a fully decentralized anonymous data and private token powered network to simply launch, and itās not like us-against-them mr. Paranoia wasnāt aware of it, hence Iām coming to a conclusion David knew there would be no anonymous private native token coded by MaidSafe ā for years. And while people who wondered how or where is this going to be finalized were assured by ābelieversā the MaidSfe are smart and surely have a plan, the plan was not to do it
But theyāre smart not to address it in a coherent, honest fashion. Which results in the mess David tries to avoid, once again blaming others.
A normal person would just cut their losses and leave, if they felt this way. Poisoning the well through bitterness doesnāt help anyone. Probably not even yourself.
Meanwhile, others are building out better, faster, more stable, more useful apps. Others are supporting the team and the project in creative ways as best they can. Thatās how to improve the situation.
It definitely does help myself knowing someone, anyone, pointed out the native token fiasco is on David, MaidSafe, and no-one else.
I see things differently from you on almost every level and regularly disagree with you on most topics non-technical. I also find your preemptively negative stand on negativity unhealthy, lol.
Why donāt people like you challenge David on his bitterness towards people who care about the native token? Like, do you even recognize the cause-effect pattern?
Sadly, I think you do, and I think you take the coward, popular, lazy way out, looking for salvage in building apps no-one will use anyway until eth/arbitrum ant are ditched to interact with the network. I think even you know Iām not only right, but also in the right.
Still baffles me that people stick around when all they do is slate David and Autonomi Iāve bought some s#itcoins in my time that I just let rot in a wallet. I donāt visit those projects channels daily and hate on the project or the people who still believe in it, itās just insane
What would folks like to see in this tool?
Analyse the contributions of any arbitrary member across all available channels on the Autonomi Discord guild?
Ability to search the entire chat history for specific keywords?
Check only the newest postsā¦ Last month, last week, last 2 days?
How up to date does this have to be? update every week, 3 days, 24 hours, 12 hours?
What do I really want this tool to do?
Are there no other more generalised and capable Discord search tools already written?
Will I bugger up a promising wee tool by inviting feature creep?
Better to work on the original premise - make Davids Discord thoughts more accessible and improve the formatting
Youāve done a great job, itās a very interesting project! Did you draw any conclusions from Davidās statements, or did you, for example, feed DeepSeek with these posts and ask for conclusions on a specific topic?
Iām working on making them available as a weekly update and an archive since some date TBD.
Download from the network as json to run through the AI tools of your choice.
Thats for later ā¦
it will be interesting to see how my private conclusions match up against the AI generated
Youāre not baffled, just dishonest. Most peopleās minds here donāt need to be changed. If you put most zealots here on a lie detector and ask them āyou think thegreattit is right?ā, they blurt out their cowardly ānoā and the poor machine runs out of ink.
If you count how many people here truly disagree with me, youāre at the number of your functioning brain cells.
None of us think you are right about anything to honest I donāt think most people even read your posts anymore. As the content of them are all pretty similar.
Iāve bought some s#itcoins in my time that I just let rot in a wallet. I donāt visit those projects channels daily and hate on the project or the people who still believe in it, itās just insane 
