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> my main source of "pleroma is made by the right" is mostly the akkoma blog that explains why akkoma exists,

The blog post was somewhat distorted and the main thrust of it was directed at the devs that let Gleason (an alleged "male feminist") contribute. He was somewhat divisive for his constant anti-trans posturing and he was banned from the project for unilateral merges and throwing tantrums on the gitlab instance. Nevertheless, FloatingGhost took the opportunity to throw the Pleroma devs under the bus, and manufactured "activity" mostly by merging in more dev branches while manufacturing notoriety by making claims that she knew to be false. And here you are, spreading the false claims, because it's what was written in the brochure. It is completely fucked up to lie about people this way, but it is as bad to repeat this kind of thing without knowing what you're talking about: you are contributing to a smear against people that you do not know and have never talked to.

Neither of the forks of Pleroma are good. Akkoma is an ideological fork based on a manufactured controversy with CADT-style code, and Soapbox is a bad clone of Twitter's UI maintained by someone who doesn't understand the backend he forked. Pleroma has been developed very thoughtfully and is good software produced by nice people that are clearly too classy to shit on FloatingGhost or Gleason. (I'm happy to shit on either or both of them, though. My source is "I was there and I know all of the people involved" rather than "I saw a blog post".)

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