Yeah, it's a weird backstory and I recall 2017 was a relatively quiet year between the big 2016 and 2018 waves of Mastodon adoption so a lot of this tale has already passed into as much "Mastodon legend" as remembered history. Plus, with so many questions left open over how it happened and why it happened that presumably for good reason don't exist in open blogs about the incidents, it's still an incomplete history and that makes it even tougher to bring it to people's awareness without sounding either conspiratorial or a grudge of some sort. (I hope I did alright in my telling of it. I certainly tried not to sound too accusative of the presumed innocent.) It is such an unfortunate thing that happened for everyone involved at the time.