[techntoke]

I find it strange to suggest that he is using sockpuppet accounts on HN without any proof. You may as well be using sockpuppet accounts to promote Matrix. It is also really suspicious to attack someone that has spent a significant amount of time on your project.

[Arathorn]

Here is a typical sockpuppet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19081596 (which matches the @senora_acero:tedomum.net puppet which was being used on Matrix around the same time)

We do not use sockpuppets to promote Matrix, and I don't see the link between pointing out someone who does as somehow meaning "we may as well be using sockpuppet accounts too"; it's a false equivalence if ever there was one. :|

And I'm not sure that calling out the unpleasant behaviour here is 'attacking someone who has spent a significant amount of time on the project' - but thankfully enough other people have independently pointed out the reality of the situation on this thread (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19422064).