quoting the post

conduwuit was supposed to be a high performance, efficient, featureful, fork of conduit that cared about the needs of users and being a functional chat server software, rather than focusing on spec pedantry, bikeshedding, and other unproductive and useless activities other homeservers tend to do. this included removing or barring said actors from participating in my rooms, making issues or PRs on my repo, ignorin useless “advice”, etc. but it also included actually dogfooding our own homeserver, testing it on clients, using it for real world use and not just because a mediocre test suite has some check marks to validate against “what the spec sez”.

conduwuit was on track, and arguably already was, to being the best actively maintained synapse alternative. the success of conduwuit stemmed primarily from my co-maintainer Jason, who i have had noticeably rough times collaborating with but overall still stuck together until yesterday.

yet, since creating conduwuit, over the past 12 months i have had nothing but constant abuse and retaliation and toxicity from all kinds of people across matrix, and none of these people getting repercussions because the world of matrix is incredibly small and they all talk to eachother and participate in eachother’s rooms and activities towards me.

and for seemingly no reason other than i dont engage and participate in the spec pedantry, bikeshedding, and my ambitions for matrix are too high and my project is a threat to taking over synapse and killing all other homeserver implementations. it’s almost like they actively work so hard to prevent matrix from moving forward and succeeding, still lacking literal basic features IRC has. and conduwuit would have implemented those basic IRC features, if it didnt come to this.

over the past 12 months, i have faced and still am facing:

• fake security vulnerabilities made up and posted on fediverse to attack me and my project, by queer folks
• false accusations of “withholding security vulnerabilities” on fediverse and matrix
• a highly falsified and libeled document about me that has been primarily passed around the nix community, including by folks who are quite high up involved in nix, to drive away conduwuit users or potential ones, including even posting it in my own rooms, and even recurring donators cancelling their donations
• my servers ACL’d and transfem.dev users banned from queer-owned rooms just because the homeserver is conduwuit
• threats of attempting mass defederation just because i dont participate in spec pedantry so conduwuit “is a threat to federation stability” bye.