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+    <title>An open letter to NLNet</title>
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+      <h1>An open letter to NLNet to pull funding from development of Loops</h1>
+    </header>
+    <section class="letter">
+      <p>
+        dansup, the maintainer of Pixelfed, Loops, 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 embarrasingly 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 of an
+        overworked software developer, but a pattern of abuse, deflection, lack
+        of accountability, appeal to emotion, and tactlessness.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        <b>We urge NLNet to pull funding from Loops immediately</b>, to refrain 
+        from funding any future projects by dansup, and to consider funding 
+        projects by the victims of his harrassment, such as <a
+        href="https://github.com/Impressia/Impressia">Impressia</a> or <a 
+        href="https://besties.house">besties</a>. We have compiled a recounting
+        of events highlighting dansup's unprofessionalism and hostility toward
+        developers smaller than him, which can be found <a 
+        href="/appendix/">here</a>.
+      </p>
+    </section>
+    <section class="signatures">
+      <p>Signed,</p>
+      <ul>
+        <li>aoife cassidy &lt;aoife@enby.space&gt;</li>
+        <li>Yaseen (@yassie_j@labyrinth.zone)</li>
+        <li>Navi (@navi@catcatnya.com)</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 class="coi">
+      <h2>Conflict of interest</h2>
+      <p>
+        This open letter has been authored by contributors who wish to remain
+        anonymous. The authors are friends and aquaintances of hazycora, and as
+        such, we acknowledge any potential conflict of interest stemming from
+        our relationship. Nonetheless, we remain confident that dansup's
+        actions towards Hazel and others are unacceptable, and that his grant
+        should be revoked.
+      </p>
+    </section>
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