@mangeurdenuage I don't think Eugene is the bad. I think they promotes mastodon - and sometimes the brand "mastodon" is used when it is really the protocol that should be named. But whateverz... it makes it easier for people to understand... I
They wrote a federated client/server, and added features as the community demanded them.
I am mastodon.social user 465 and may well have minimally helped in the dev work around the moderation tools. https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/20802