I am stepping back from the #Tusky project with immediate effect.
I discovered severe lapses in how the Tusky project's donations (received via #OpenCollective) were being handled. When I reported those to the project's private "Tusky Contributors" Matrix channel the financial admins tone policed the feedback, refused to engage with the concerns I and others raised, and demanded the discussion be stopped.
There is too much detail for a thread, so please read https://write.as/nikclayton/stepping-back-from-the-tusky-project.
To be super clear — I’m 100% not saying it is fraudulent. This could be as simple as “Some work was intended to be done, it wasn’t, other work was done instead, and the expense description was not updated”.
This is common in small projects, I would say.
The answers and reactions of those admins is incredibly fishy tho, and I don’t really see a good ending to all that with what’s been documented.