#anyway no aethy won't ban you for criticism

[fuqer]

if anyone's curious what actually went down with the aethy "drama:"

1. someone posted art that wasnt theirs and the admin took it down

2. said person threw a fit about it, claimed it was "censorship" to not allow reuploaded artwork that they didn't have permission to use, and insulted other people and staff

3. they were temporarily suspended and in response, one of their friends made a new mastodon instance for themselves

4. friend group started insulting & spreading false rumors about aethy's staff on their instance and off of the fediverse

5. aethy suspended the instance, and now these people are actively harassing aethy's staff via email and through their aethy accounts and are continuing to spread hate & disinfo