I did help assemble the initial mod team on Spinster. Glitches and I became quick friends, and I was sad to see her being bullied by some other users. We sent her messages of support, and I publicly supported her. When she applied to be a mod it was a no-brainer. I wanted to empower her and help us run the site. I hoped that being a mod would also help legitimize her to the community, so she'd be a person others respected.

Things didn't work out, and she deleted her own account. We listened to her concerns, but ultimately disagreed with her. Squiddy caught onto this and started posting "expose" articles about how "Spinster doesn't care about lesbians" in response. Glitches completely turned on us in the course of a day, from an ally to an enemy. She had been extremely open about her mental illness since day 1, and I guess we were just seeing a part of it come out. There's a bad taste in my mouth now, but I don't dislike Glitches. I considered her a friend and I'm sad things turned out the way they did.

Squiddy went on to defame us repeatedly, posting out of context screenshots and adding her own narration without speaking to anyone on the Spinster team. The mods allowed it to go on for weeks, in the name of "free speech," but when she leaked messages from a private chatroom to shame and antagonize us, the mods felt she had gone too far. I didn't agree with the mods initially, but I do think they made the right call now.

By this point I felt hurt by Squiddy, but I didn't (and don't) hate her. I wanted the best outcome for Spinster and the feminist community. I spent 2 days writing an article about how to launch your own Fediverse server in a step-by-step guide with screenshots to make it as easy as possible.

I wrote this guide for Squiddy, so she could launch her own server. I thought that people who disagreed with the way Spinster ran things could just run their own server. Despite the fact I was trying to help them, they continue to antagonize me to this day and blame me for anything that's wrong.

There are people who could be allies with us, but because of the moves they've made, have positioned us as enemies.

@alex Interesting, I have been too busy to follow all of this.

Have you left Spinster, then?

@realcaseyrollins Yeah my main account is here now. The goal is for people to hopefully stop attacking Spinster while using me as a scapegoat

@alex it's a shame you're getting targeted, you're a super nice dude.