Purple is not me “asking for money”. People asked for ways to support me so I added it. If I didn’t have this I wouldn’t be able to keep working on Damus. If Vitor has other ways to subsidize development of Amethyst then that is great, but not everyone has that luxury.

Me and vitor have different development philosophies. I don’t think adding more and more stuff to the app is necessarily a good thing. I want Damus to be really good, reliable, and fast at specific things (like microblogging). I think a community functionality should be a standalone app, like a reddit app.