They're just dredging up old beef for some reason. Very, very early on Pleroma was popular with people who found the general anti-fascist stance of early Mastod

They're just dredging up old beef for some reason. Very, very early on Pleroma was popular with people who found the general anti-fascist stance of early Mastodon instances offensive and chose Pleroma, so it kind of became The Fascist Platform for a time until a wider range of people chose it for its lighter resource use. That post is from 2019. The poster later worked on Pleroma for a while, so it's safe to say things changed. Three years is a long time.