One moderator from fosstodon is not 100% aligned to the prevailing ideology on Fedi.
Someone on Mastodon found "bad" posts from said moderator.
The mob went on to presume that someone that is not 100% aligned to their prevailing ideology is unfit to be considered human - let alone a moderator - so they went after the admins.
The admins claimed to have reviewed said mod actions, didn't find anything out of the ordinary, but still got rid of them.
Regardless of actions and reactions, the mob now successfully tainted the name and reputation of the instance.
Less-principled users of fosstodon are now just leaving the instance, for fear of being associated with them.
One of fosstodon's admins (the author of the blog post) is now saying "Screw you guys, I'm going ~~home~~ to Bluesky"

EDIT: There's more to it. Seems like said mod is also active on Reddit (https://lemm.ee/post/60365167)

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know if your changed your view on the issue after getting more context on carrotcypher’s histoy on Reddit but I’d like to share some of my quick thoughts

I don’t think it’s probably fair to characterize him as a nazi but I do think it’s fair to find some of his views objectionable
He let his personal politics influence his moderation decisions outside of posted community rules. It’s bad moderation when Lemmy.ml doesn’t it and it’s bad when he does it,
Removing him as moderator is appropriate based on number 2 moreso than number 1
Defederation from FOSStodon is a nuclear reaction that I don’t personally agree with but it’s a freedom that the fediverse is built on. Zealously demanding all (non-malicious) instances remain federated is a bad thing as much as zealously defederating from instances that don’t have the right politics.

I often find myself outside the “acceptable viewpoints” on the fediverse and it hasn’t really affected me other than getting a few downvotes once in a while. The fediverse isn’t actually as ideologically pure as we think it is, I think the constant tankie/liberal drama is proof of that.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 3 months ago

I agree with almost all of your points, but I don't think that it's okay to normalize guilt by association, and I call them "the mob" because I see these calls for defederation less as a real concern for their safety and more of instrument to enforce compliance.

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