@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