@gingerrroot To make matters worse, that thread reminded me that Gab itself announced that they're moving to Mastodon (because they want to be able to use Mastodon clients - that wouldn't require them to move to Mastodon at all, they could just implement the Mastodon client API on their platform, but that's how they want to do it, apparently).

And IIRC they mentioned they were going to federate. So, be prepared to instance block Gab...

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We need to let purism know that they shaln't be allowed on the fediverse if they allow shit like this, so thank you for posting.

We need to destroy them and their profits, perhaps they'll listen then.

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Are there other purism instances besides social.librem.one?

@gingerrroot whoa! knowingly appealing to the gab crowd in 2019 😰

@gingerrroot Is there a list of purism instances or is it just librem.one?

@gingerrroot https://mastodon.social/users/Gargron/statuses/102180970932210065
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/102021547318439662
to be clear as far as these comments claim it sounds Purism hired him for occasional contract work and not full employment. He has stated he is no longer comfortable working with purism and I believe he had commentary disputing the action day 2. It does sounds like he wasn't as assertive as he should have been but the comments don't make it obvious if he implemented these specific features for them either.

This is not a full defense, the way Eugen relayed this information made him sound passive in how he talked to them but I don't have the details of their conversations.

On that note not everyone purism has paid and/or contracted in the past has done something wrong, I'm aware of at least 1 person who has ended their contract with Purism over the entire situation besides Eugen (and frankly, much earlier and with what sounds like a more assertive tone while still giving them ample time and context of their actions to allow them to reconsider). A lot of people seem blinded sided by Purism's actions they have lost all of their good will from anyone already on the Fediverse.

I think the bigger concern is ending their good will with the greater FOSS community, although from how they're handing Librem 5 I suspect they'll do that themselves.