May Likes TorontoMar 21

Time to back up, export, and leave if you're on mstdn.ca
https://ottawa.place/@stephanie/116267088513251309

If you can't see the above post, here's the CBC article about the person who owns and runs the server.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/inglewood-league-lawsuit-missing-funds-9.7136933

Migration tips:
https://zeroes.ca/@StaceyCornelius/115967726861839689

Edit: These are allegations and there's a state of the instance coming up. I'd err on the side of caution and migrate early, or at least back everything up, because losing an account here kind of sucks.

Stéphanie (@[email protected])

If you're on mstdn.ca, I would save my list of follows/followers immediately and think about moving. The owner is getting sued for over 300K by his community league. I wouldn't bet on the instance surviving this latest thing 😞 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/inglewood-league-lawsuit-missing-funds-9.7136933

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Show threadEv DelenMar 21

@mayintoronto

I hate to be "That Guy" but I would remind everyone that these are allegations in the form of a statement of claim, not a finding of fact in a court of law.

As far as I'm aware we do have a presumption of innocence in Canada.

Obviously the allegation is disturbing, but I will withhold my condemnation and won't be moving instances until such time as a finding of fact is made (or at least until we see some evidence to back up the claims).

As for "he's hosting it at home" as some kind of evidence of malice, there was a deliberate and public effort to get mstdn.ca off of "the cloud" and onto Canadian sovereign servers, so I feel like this is slandering someone with their good intentions.

I note, this is not a defence of his alleged actions, merely a reminder of our professed values.

Show threadpeter (not the famous one)

@evdelen @mayintoronto That presumption of innocence is a habit of *the courts* *in the courtroom* - not of the general public (who are allowed to use other heuristics) in public.

Were this not so, jurors would never be challenged or questioned. Hell, prosecutors wouldn't be allowed to bring cases.

Mar 23 at 7:30pmWeb
Show threadEv DelenMar 23

@harmoniousanger @mayintoronto

In fact, the presumption of innocence only applies to criminal matters, as of this moment this is only a civil matter.

Notwithstanding, my point was that there has only been an allegation made, and there hasn't even been a statement of defence yet.

Given the news dropped on a Friday, and unless one is very rich, one would be unlikely to get a meeting with a lawyer until Monday at the earliest, we're still well within the territory of a reasonable time frame for a response, including cancelling the State of the Instance (I kind of figured that'd happen).

I'm not defending any position, I'm merely drawing attention to the process.