I was speaking from personal experience as a trans person. Him asking for input on pronouns is the one time I personally interacted with him. It hurts learning that was a cynical ploy, though not unexpected from what I have learned of him since.

Rimu is a bad person, and the fact that his personal views are implemented in his software is the reason I don’t use piefed. The fact that the Lemmy devs keep a distance between those things and the software itself is why I use Lemmy despite its development team.

Everyone, even bad people deserve basic human decency. Misgendering is more of an attack on the trans community than anything you have linked to so far. If you have more to say on Rimu I’m happy to hear it as long as you don’t continue to insult me, a trans person, by deliberately misgendering people when talking to me.

Misgendering someone because you dislike them is an indictment of your character, not theirs.