David Gerardbluesky are hilariously evil as a company. rationalist vibecamp crypto bro dipshits with nazi pals. their USERBASE, however, is awesome. i expect the company is wondering how the hell they deal with being the land of queer shitposters who bully people like Ian Dunt off.
Oliver Ghingold@davidgerard Like all tech companies they're dealing with the fact that the people who are building the damn thing know they're valuable enough to ignore the tone-from-the-top when it conflicts with the userbase or their own moral center. Paul (AT handle "@pfrazee.com") is very embedded in the community and seems to have more of a seat at the table for sitewide policy than eg. ex-Twitter Jack does.
The fact that AT Protocol is federated (even if it doesn't natively talk to ActivityPub, that doesn't stop people from writing shims, see also: Diaspora, Zot, and I think Secure Scuttlebutt?) means that the tone from the top matters way less than it would in a centralized social network anyways.
If the community hates tech-bro libertarianism, and boy howdy do they ever, then the admins have their work cut out for them if that's an important part of how they plan to make money.