@twistylittlepassages there are two metas -- the tusky meta is that some famous open source guy got mad that Tuskey sometimes pays its volunteers small amounts of money for their time even when that time doesn't lead immediately directly to tangible contributions (see tusky's explanation of the situation: https://opencollective.com/tusky/updates/tusky-contributor-response-to-nik-clayton for more info )

The Oliphant drama appears to be a misunderstanding between a user and the mod team, compounded by the main Oliphant admin's failure to communicate effectively with said user and said mod team, who they'd made competing promises to, which was then escalated by the now ex-user deciding the best course of action was a very loud and public "mods are out to get me!" thread (see: https://dotart.blog/welshpixie/anarchonina-and-oliphant-social & https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/a-story-to-tell & https://jorts.horse/@AnarchoNinaWrites/110975247371907452 if you want all three particpant perspectives on that one)