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This is what happens when you feel ownership over a community.
He thinks "I built this community" and to an extent he's correct, but as with the nature of communities, it doesn't matter if he helped build it, the community is by definition made up of the people of the community... not just the guy who spearheaded things way back in the day. Especially something like an open source project, if he wanted this level of control he should have kept it closed source.
If you think you own your community, you're in for a bad time.
“But I’m just a narcissist, I’m what matters here. You must worship me, why don’t you? I’ll cut off your legs.”
He's actually cutting off his own legs and soon he'll be dancing on pegs.
He dances for nickels
When you want to build a cult of personality and accidentally build a flourishing diverse community lol