Hey @Gargron, would you like to go on the record and explain why your team bans people off the platform for encouraging others to contribute to #FOSS projects and explaining all the ways they can help improve software and the user experience for others?

If you take issue with these ways, which do you consider valid and how do they affect the development of #Mastodon

#FLOSS #Freedom #freeSpeech #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #GNU #TwitterTakeover #TwitterMigration #Eugen

@Gargron OR is it just that you couldn't handle a woman talking about development? #devrel

Either way we'd love to hear more about this decision by the #Mastodon #Moderation Team following this discussion with you about the platform and development of it. Thank you.

@smcintyre @Gargron Possibly over-stressed and making poorly considered decisions in some cases.

Can only guess until there is some discussion on his part.

Thanks for posting this.

@tasket @Gargron He seems uninterested in discussion about the platform or his decisions. We would simply have to wait for the appeal, but I have never heard of any appeal ever being even considered in 7 years of this platform.

I think he is struggling with the realization and acceptance that being a twitter replacement means he can't run it like his private group chat around his cult of personality.

I'm unsure he will tolerate such a change.