Funny how @Gargron was so concerned about popular opinion and "optics" when he delisted us... Now the thread on reddit discussing this is already more popular than any other thread this month and will likely hit an all time high.

Shame about the bad optics...

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@freemo Just between you and me, this Eugen is more full of shit than your average Silicon Valley vulture capitalist. How many of them have an "atomic poet" to kiss their ass continuously?

@indyradio @freemo imho the problem is that mastodon/eugen is funded by the EU and the german government. stuff like this warps your brain. public broadcasting is broken for the same reason.

@bonifartius @freemo do you know that with certainty? I do know he has a tax except limited liability corporation, which is somewhat different than US choices for incorporation, but it seems he is the sole voice of that GMBH, and makes the decisions. You can read his declarations from 5 years ago. There is no disagreement. I'd like to have detail, not speculation.
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@indyradio @freemo e.g. blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/

someone must have paid that, and it's pretty irrelevant if it's a gGmbH or not if he decides his own pay in the end.

the goals are cery questionable from an ethical point, it's the usual technocratic solution the fasc.. erm progressives push in response to social problems:

> Find who a piece of text originally comes from and how it changed as it travelled to your home feed through the information cascade

> See when a post is using highly emotive language through sentiment analysis

> At a glance, see potentially important information about the post author, such as account age

> See whether other users have flagged the post as untrustworthy, and vote yourself

NB: sorry if i come over aggressive, you are totally right to question what i say. i'm just pissed at the world in general ;)

@bonifartius @freemo there are gaps in your message, so I can't follow completely, but by law, he can take up to one third of all income from the GMBH as his salary. We have no data. There is zero transparency.
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