Seeing how things are going these days, I kind of suspect that he did succeed. Good for him I guess.

OMG samesies ❤

Just a FYI: Qak was forked into wR8vl last week because the main developer had a racist meltdown on Blopr.

But Piefed is federated? Also it seems kind of dickish to simply copy content with the intent to host it yourself with ads.

Unless of course you also count the decades of aggression and covert warfare against European countries (sabotage, psyops, cyberattacks etc).

But aside from that…