He apparently left the MP2P Community in 2004; subsequently Blubster and Piolet slowly began to lose their user base.

By the end of 2004, when discussions on P2Pforums.com[2] were focused on whether or not he had left the community for financial reasons, it was known that he has a rare form of muscular dystrophy,[3][4] that has forced him to move in wheelchair.

[5] Soto later put his energy into Omemo [es],[6][7] an open source peer-to-peer software for storage space sharing (distributed computing).

He has launched Decide Madrid, an online platform whereby citizens can propose policy for the city: a proposal supported by a number of users equal to 1 percent of the adult population is put before voters in a referendum.

[11] He renounced to his office as city councillor on 8 October 2019, after sexual misconduct allegations.