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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<title>An open letter to NLnet</title>
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<header>
<h1>An open letter to NLnet to pull funding from development of Loops</h1>
</header>
<section id="letter">
<p>
dansup, the maintainer of Pixelfed, Loops (which NLnet helps fund), and
FediDB, among others, is a dangerous force in the fediverse community.
With a follower count of over 22 thousand, he has repeatedly shown
himself to be hostile to fellow FOSS fediverse developers, have a
lack of care for open-sourcing his work, and be in favour of injecting
the fediverse with advertisements. He has also proved himself to be
prone to conspiratorial thinking, regrettable public statements, and
embarrassingly public meltdowns.
</p>
<p>
We, the undersigned, believe that dansup's actions, culminating in the
public meltdown of 2024-12-30, are not merely isolated incidents, but
a pattern of hostility, deflection, lack of accountability, appeal to
emotion, and tactlessness.
</p>
<p>
<b>We urge NLnet to pull funding from Loops immediately</b>. We have
compiled a recounting of events highlighting dansup's unprofessionalism
and hostility towards developers smaller than him, which can be found <a
href="appendix/">here</a>.
</p>
<p>
<b>We urge dansup to temporarily step down from maintainership
positions</b>, and to take a break from fedi. We acknowledge that these
actions are likely the result of burnout from being overworked and
underappreciated.
</p>
<p>
<b>We believe dansup has done a lot of good for the fediverse as an
ecosystem</b>. We acknowledge the large userbase of Pixelfed, a project
spearheaded and maintained by dansup; we additionally acknowledge the
work that he has done championing the fediverse and putting time and
effort into developing tools and platforms for it. However, we remain
confident that dansup's actions are unacceptable behaviour coming from
a project maintainer, especially considering his position of power
relative to his peers, and that he should rethink this behaviour.
</p>
</section>
<section id="signatures">
<p>Signed,</p>
<ul>
<li>aoife cassidy (@[email protected])</li>
<li>Yaseen (@[email protected])</li>
<li>Navi (@[email protected])</li>
<li>41666 (@[email protected])</li>
<li>margo “deci” (@[email protected])</li>
<li>eris (@[email protected])</li>
<li>jamie (@[email protected])</li>
<li>amé (@[email protected])</li>
<li>Amps (@[email protected])</li>
<li>ryan fae (@[email protected])</li>
<li>mia (@[email protected])</li>
<li>ixhby (@[email protected])</li>
<li>elke (@[email protected])</li>
<li>sugar (@[email protected])</li>
<li>Lux (@[email protected])</li>
<li>jade arson. (@[email protected])</li>
<li>nelle (@[email protected])</li>
<li>Chesapeake (@[email protected])</li>
<li>Free (@[email protected])</li>
<li>49016 (@[email protected])</li>
<li>Sammy (@[email protected])</li>
<li>lily (@[email protected])</li>
<li>keilar (@[email protected])</li>
<li>Sam Dalfuss (@[email protected])</li>
<li>notfire (@[email protected])</li>
<li>MagicLike (@[email protected])</li>
<li>Max Walters (@[email protected])</li>
<li>xyhhx ([email protected]) (@[email protected])</li>
<li>Lilia "Grunge Fox" (@[email protected])</li>
<li>Bitl (@[email protected])</li>
<li>lily (@[email protected])</li>
<li>Inderix (@[email protected])</li>
<li>Freya (@[email protected])</li>
<li>monospacedmagic (@[email protected])</li>
<li>oli (@[email protected])</li>
<li>Ace Ikuda ([email protected]) (@[email protected])</li>
<li>JeremyStarTM (@[email protected])</li>
<li>Rexo (@[email protected])</li>
</ul>
<small>
You may add your signature by sending a pull request to <a
href="https://github.com/dansup-open-letter/dansup-open-letter.github.io">this
repository</a>.
</small>
</section>
<section id="coi">
<h2>Conflict of interest</h2>
<p>
This open letter has been authored by contributors who wish to remain
anonymous. The authors, as well as some of the undersigned, are friends
and acquaintances of hazycora, and as such, we acknowledge any potential
conflicts of interest stemming from our relationship. Nonetheless, we
insist that dansup's actions towards Hazel and others are unacceptable,
and that his grant should be revoked.
</p>
<p>
hazycora has provided screenshots of private conversations with dansup,
and has confirmed the accuracy of the appendix prior to publishing.
pixeldesu has provided the authors with links to now-deleted public
posts by dansup. Neither had any other control over the appendix and did
not write any portion of it.
</p>
</section>
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