I can't quite put my finger on why I think this, but I see Eugen as little better than Musk. An inveterate self-promoter that has done very well out of Mastodon. Whenever anything happens at Twitter, he's *always* ringing the bell.
Plus his behaviour during the nascent Pleroma days was very fucking suss.
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