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Sp I wrote a pretty lengthy blog post entitled:
Eugen Rochko, CEO of Mastodon, Found to Support Nazi’s Agenda
Sadly I wish it was clickbait.
You can all read it here:
https://jeffreyfreeman.me/eugen-rochko-ceo-of-mastodon-found-to-support-nazis-agenda/
It is the pinnacle of the recent drama. I will also be sharing it on twitter, linking the joinmastodon account there. I tried to include most of the evidence in the article. Hopefully this will have some positive result
So, it really is click bait because it's not true that he supports a nazi's agenda. I read the whole blog post and can't see how that's true.
Did he handle a situation badly? Maybe. Does he support nazis? Not from anything I can see in your post. Did he support you and your community? No. Sorry about that.
Also, it's not clear how delisting from the join site harmed your users. Could you expand on that?
I'm really sorry for what you and your community have been through.
@Elephantidae The Nazi's agenda was to get us defederated and delisted, he knew this was his agenda. He then delisted us as a direct result of that Nazi's campaign, therefore,he satisfied the Nazi and appeased his agenda.
I'd say that makes it quite literally true.
@Elephantidae AS for how it hurt hte community... three ways I can think of.
1) It lends credibility to the Nazi's claims, giving the impression to others QOTO was delisted because the claims against it were true.
2) It significantly reduces our influx of new users. As a specialty instance it is not easy to find new users as a generalist instance might
3) it no longer shows up when trying to connect using the official mastodon app which relies on that list, causing people to have a hard time connecting even if they are already here.
@freemo Thanks. You might want to put that in the article.
