Oh shit, I guess the lesson here is that you can never trust a top-down power structure, regardless of how noble an organizations goals seem to be.

I guess, we need to create more coops, that make Free Software or something. I also like, what Codeberg is doing, with their membership and democratic organisational structure, although I don’t know much about how it works.

Blakestacey mentioned here that the author of the medium article seems to be an AI user, but David Gerard (who knows more inside details I assume) mentions the reporting seems to be valid.

The Foundation itself once described her as one of a very small number of people in the world who deeply understand the technical underpinnings of the system

Sorry, everyone is replaceable, and if only one person has all the knowledge of a system, you have a major management failure.

People get “hit by busses” all the time - having this single point of failure is a major oversight. Maybe this will serve as a wakeup call to the organization to better manage everything.