Some extended thoughts:

I’m truly sad to hear the discourse surrounding #mstdnca and learn of the allegations against its instance owner, Chad.

I made my fediverse home with mstdnca in Nov 2022 when there was only 1600 of us. Me and Chad connected and I became the 2nd volunteer moderator. We also became friends.

That was a pretty exciting time for the mstdnca community. A Canadian social media alternative was growing! We had prominent figures + politicians joining.. we had an organization sponsoring us. There was lot’s of promise for our growing community.

During this time, there were promises made to ensure our community could thrive and to do that we needed governance, boards, oversight. A community building project I was eager to participate in.

But it never happened. Why?

Most early adopters will note the first immediate reason was because of needing to keep up with the servers exponential growth. The “growing pains” of the instance.

Another reason I’ve read is that no one offered to help, and I’m here to say that’s not true, atleast not at the beginning.

Myself and the 2 other moderators were highly skilled in different areas, and we had a ton of other highly-skilled people willing to help. I put out a call for volunteers for different groups and committees and we had dozens of people eager to participate.

But nothing ever got off the ground.

I volunteered a total of 6 months before resigning. There was some discourse within the volunteer team, stemming what felt like a lack of leadership and direction.

Despite this, Chad became a good friend of mine—but we haven’t spoken since last year when he didn’t respond to a text I sent expressing something that was bothering me in our friendship. The community stopped feeling like home so I left and came to ottawa.place a few months ago.

While my reasons for leaving were ultimately personal, I can’t help to take note that 3.5 years later, the promise of governance, board, and oversight has still not been met and the growing pains haven’t ended.

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I’m not here to weigh in on the recent allegations, I’ll let the courts do that work—but the lack of oversight will forever cast doubt on Chad’s ability to fulfil the promises made to me and my fellow Mastonauts.

Regardless on if it’s skill or motivation that is preventing Mastodon Canada from becoming the community it was promised, I do think it’s time for mstdnca to find someone or someones to chart a new path for its ship.

@chad your service to the Mastodon Community is undeniable and so many of us will be forever grateful for the space you gave us to plant new roots. But the community hasn’t been thriving under your leadership, and Mastodon Canada deserves to thrive. Please consider relinquishing control of the steering wheel.

Respectful discourse only.

#mstdnca

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@erin Respectful discourse is informing you that Chad is a pathological liar & he swatted me. Used white racial cop violence on me/my family/my home. Lied about that then. Lies about it to this very day. My story has never changed once because I wasn't lying. Chad forgot his own lies & has told more than one story about him using racial violence on me, after I called him a covert racist assbucket. The cops apologized to me, as I was yelling at them to leave my home & stop traumatizing my Mom, when we were still grieving my Dad's death (less than 4 months prior), over some white guy weaponizing cops on our home. That's your friend!

https://beige.party/@PhoenixSerenity/116279475389622920

Ms. Que Banh (@[email protected])

"He's a nice guy." "He was a close friend." "He never did anything wrong, that I saw." "I don't believe he would do that." "He's innocent until proven guilty in court." "I've never seen him treat anyone badly." Statements like these are what supporters of lying scum/criminals say when the person accused is their 'friend'. Statements like these are what many scumbags said & some still say, about Epstein. I don't trust anyone who says shit like the above when trying to defend scumbag liars, who usually also tend to engage in shady activities in the shadows.

beige.party

@PhoenixSerenity

That sounds awful. I'm sorry that happened to you. I was not aware of this situation before you commented. I chatted with someone closer to the situation to get a bit more information as your post wasn't entirely clear on the events that took place. I'm told I was no longer a moderator when this happened.

Please note though, when you say "That's your friend!", that I specifically stated in my post that I haven't spoken to Chad in some time, a year to be more precise. We are not friends anymore. I understand you're angry about the situation, I would feel the same; however just know your post reads to me as more of an attack towards me, than information sharing, so I was a bit taken back when I first read it.

@erin I'll respond more in depth, after I'm done work & back at home. FYI, I didn't know you're no longer friends as that wasn't specifically mentioned in your posts. I only saw that you haven't spoken in a year but no clear statement that you're not friends anymore. Some people still stay friends even after not talking for longer than a year. I tend to be very clear & will state when someone is no longer my friend whatsoever, to avoid any public confusion.

I had posted a public thread about Chad being a pathological lying swatter, which has full details. You can ask me any questions about the unnecessary traumas inflicted on my family by Chad, I'm very open here about my lived experiences.

https://beige.party/@PhoenixSerenity/116268551857561967

Ms. Que Banh (@[email protected])

Chad was the wankerbutternoodle Mstdn.ca owner who had called the cops on me for some past political posts. It was using cop violence on POC. The cops showed up & left fast, because it was all BS. It traumatized my Mom & enraged me. The cowardly liar then denied it when I posted about it all. A bunch of white folks supported him & didn't believe me. I knew #karma would catch up with that liar, sooner or later. Now, it has. Cops will be coming after him, for a real crime. I told you all that Chad was a dirty, lying weasel. Maybe, believe me instead of the white guy, next time 🤡 https://toot.cat/@catzilla/116267551374750231 #Criminal #Fraud #Canadian #Alberta #Liar #ToldYouSo #ConMan

beige.party

@erin
I'm now home, have eaten & had a nice cup of tea & ready to respond more on depth, now.

First off, I'm going to give you some credit for actually responding to a few more loyal Chad fanboys/fangirls, honestly & openly. I respect transparency, a lot. I will take time to thank you, for responding with lack of transparency truths in your experience as past volunteer mod for #MstdnCA. You're one of very few who were brave enough to be open about massive & longtime lack of transparency with how Chad opted to run things. Most others are still cowardly about that, to this day.

Secondly. I don't know you. You don't know me. All we really know about each other, is what we personally choose to post in public. How we feel about what others share in public is personal. How I personally felt, reading your original posts & then reading all the replies to your post - absolutely enraged me & made the already awful PTSD triggers sound off even louder. I saw zero condemnations & too many of - we should just wait til courts decide. I saw too many white folks being OK with that pathological lying POS swatting me. They were more concerned about their instance going down. Your feeling of being attacked by me are nowhere even close to the traumas that Chad chose to enact on my family. Recognize the degrees & differences of real life harms & your personal feelings about me saying - "That's your friend!".

I have a LOT more to say. I've told everyone here that I'm doing another big thread on why how I was treated was wrong & how it's directly connected to why many POC women activists won't trust white folks.

https://beige.party/@PhoenixSerenity/116287920991444097

Ms. Que Banh (@[email protected])

Later this week. I'll talk about my feelings about how most folks are socially conditioned to quickly judge loud, angry POC women but not conditioned to understand why a lot of us are done with being mistreated/disbelieved/treated lesser than because we don't stay calm/polite when we experience ongoing abuses & rarely are supported during our worst experiences. Most folks (fellow POC are included) are socially conditioned to refrain from judging the polite in public white person, who abuses their white privilege & stays calm, after being shady & abusive. All of this shitass, social programming is fucking ass backwards. It sets up a perpetual system of putting polite talking, calm, perpetrators, over not polite talking, not calm, victims. #POCVoices #AsianMastodon #FakeAssCivility #POCMastodon #WhitePrivilege #Racism #Prejudice #FuckStatusQuo #DecolonizeYourMind

beige.party

@erin Lastly, Chad absolutely underestimated me. He told cops that I'm #autistic & unpredictable when swatting me - the cops told me that, when I confronted them! He is a lying POS, OK abusing disabled POC women, even when knowing I was fucking grieving my Dad's death. I am fed up with white folks trying to be verbally diplomatic. Fuck that shit. That politeness hides a lot of nasty crap that civil white folks enjoy hiding behind.

I'm not gonna be OK with white cowardice. Especially when it's harmed my family.

FYI - I also took notes of your edits & not a single edit said - I am no longer friends with Chad.
You even marked your edits with grammar. Not stating - not friends with Chad anymore.

#ActuallyAutistic #PeopleWithDisabilities #POCWomen

@PhoenixSerenity

Perhaps attack was the wrong word.. the anger felt through your post felt directed towards me. As someone learning about the situation for the first time, I'm happy to read and listen to your experience with Chad, but I needed more context about what happened and what events led to all of this. Without, it's hard to understand fully. This is what caused me to chat with someone who had a bit more knowledge so I could inform myself.

I understand why you're feeling hurt, particularly now. I understand not feeling heard and then seeing the same person get attention for what seems trivial is unjust and unfair. Which yeah, given your experience, feels trivial. I get that.

I'm not going to say that bias and racism don't exist, and absolutely people care about what affects them, which is why you're seeing a cohort of them leave now. Apathy and ignorance, as well. I'll add on to that, to say that Chad's status (or former status, we'll see) with the Mastodon community doesn't do you any favours. He is (or was, again, we'll see) well liked. All of that is most likely a part of the reason you're not feeling heard.

I'm wondering if you're not feeling heard perhaps partly because others are also having a hard time following along? I'm not asking you to be polite, I'm asking for more clarity and context to the situation. Because throwing me into a story without giving me the beginning makes it hard for me to follow along.

@erin
Yeah. Attack was the wrong word for you to use.

I'm not going to respond again until you've informed me that you read my entire thread, including every single response on it.

I have provided you with links to read everything. How you've responded to me, tells me that you haven't read entire thread because no one else who read entire thread has any confusion.

Like I said before, I'm open to direct questions. After you've actually done necessary homework, first. Chad has a history of pathological lying, right here, on Mastodon. I have zero issues being public about it all - since I've never lied about it, he has.

@PhoenixSerenity I did, and I just went back to skim it again. You realize I might not be seeing comments if I'm not connected to their instance right? That's how mastodon works.

A summary: It starts off with the Inglewood accusations, and then got into calling his friends foolish, you call him a liar multiple times, that you would win in court, called people who still support him scumbags, that chad used racial violence against you, people around when it happened defended and justified and supported him. He tried to throw other people under the bus. Chad denied it. Chads a liar, and then you asked the cops if it was him and they said yes. You told the cops they were only there because of a petty white man, told them to fuck off I think then cranked up cypress hill and yelled.. "you don't deserve any ham sandwiches" Then your comment about the whole neighbourhood hearing you. Catherine saying they believe you. Talking about Deborahs comment on another post about the words allegedly and apparently.

No where in there do you clearly explain what happened in detail and why. I'm trying to explain this to you, that I genuinely just didn't have all of the information so that is why I went out of my way to find more information so I didn't ignore your message like others have.

But I do know what happened, because I have been informed, so no I don't have questions. Thank you for sharing your story. I hope you have a good night.

@erin You should be a politician, since you already talk like one 🤡
That is a personal attack. I'm owning it