rglullis

Just to respond to point (6): From the blog post, there is a link to a post from someone moving from fosstodon to hachyderm that says:

Overall I'm satisfied with the moderation process and neutrality on Fosstodon. What to do? As a Fosstodon user, it's hard to see any future path with the instance that works in my favor. (...) Most will never know anything about the name other than "the instance which allowed a nazi mod". While I believe the characterization is 100% untrue and unfair, the die is cast for lots of people.
If I stay, the likely outcomes are:

• Limited communication with some other people, because some other instance mods will choose to block Fosstodon
• Will have to explain my choices and the highlights of this post any time someone says "eeeww, Fosstodon", occasionally and probably forever
• Some people will incorrectly assume I hold certain views based on my association with fosstodon

So, yes, at least one person is moving to another instance not because they are particularly against the admins, but for fear of being judged by association.

Interesting! I hope to see posts from your business soon, and it would be great to have more people like you contributing to the communities on https://indiehackers.space/

Ah, I thought you were talking about something here on the Fediverse.

In any case, I wish people didn't feel afraid to talk about business here. Maybe more people would realize that behind the majority of "business" there are genuine people and not just the cartoon capitalist pigs.

Well I only moderate 1 community and there is a compensation component to it.

So many questions... :)

• What community?
• From this account, or some other? You profile page doesn't show you as moderator for anything.
• What form of compensation are you talking about?

The 11th commandment.

Thank you. I wouldn't take it hard evidence of anything, but I did miss the part where he was actually a mod on Reddit as well.

That is what their mod was accused of having done

He was accused of lots of things. But was there any concrete evidence of that? All I saw was a comment from reddit where he said something stupid.

AFAIK, it goes something like this:

1. One moderator from fosstodon is not 100% aligned to the prevailing ideology on Fedi.
2. Someone on Mastodon found "bad" posts from said moderator.
3. 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.
4. The admins claimed to have reviewed said mod actions, didn't find anything out of the ordinary, but still got rid of them.
5. Regardless of actions and reactions, the mob now successfully tainted the name and reputation of the instance.
6. Less-principled users of fosstodon are now just leaving the instance, for fear of being associated with them.
7. 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)

I'm having trouble parsing your sentence. Do you mean that the mods/admins of fosstodon were using their position of power to suppress anyone?

Are we going to turn this community into a place for feature requests?