@selfsamesynonym 1. I was and still am against whitelisting as a default federation model. I have since added a whitelist mode for academic uses which I respect. Authenticated fetch wasn't even a concept at the time those discussions were happening and is unrelated to whitelisting.

2. I never acted shocked and apalled about what Purism was doing. You must be confusing me with someone else. How they run their server is their business. This also predates Gab appearing on the fediverse.