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 @bitflipped @feditips He tried and now it's "not clear enough" because conspiracy theorists will always look for a way their wrong beliefs could still technically be true. This is an *embarrassing* thread for feditips to have propagated. Doing a Tucker Carlson needs to be a bannable offense, imho. 5 comments
@feditips @bitflipped And in that thread he... said anyone could donate to Patreon just like anyone else... and that conveys no authority, influence, or strings. So unless the Patreon income has hockey-sticked way more than just "Mastodon is super popular this week", I'm not sure what you're on about, and even if they did donate, it wouldn't impact... anything? @feditips @bitflipped But it's good to know you're "concerned": https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/concern_troll @ocdtrekkie @feditips @bitflipped "you are not allowed to use the word 'concerned'" actually deranged  If you receive money from an organisation, you will naturally tend not to want to criticise that organisation. That's how political lobbying works. That's why companies donate vast sums to political parties, even without any direct deals or demands. Donors make parties dependent on them, so that the parties naturally tend to not tread on donors' toes. |
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@ocdtrekkie @bitflipped
I'm concerned in the same way many have been concerned about Mozilla's relationship to Google.
Eugen himself brought up this example in the thread I linked to, did you read it?
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/18759