I read Ategon’s post and while I appreciate their attempt at reconciliation(?), when you look at the actual internal changes they’re making:

• admins will be required to have two accounts, one for admin activities and one for non admin activities. This is how some admins have already been interacting in the fediverse and basically makes it so comments done on the non-admin account should not be taken as that admin speaking on behalf of the instance. Generally the admin account will be things done relating to admin duties (e.g. my posts here in meta) while the non-admin account is other various conversations. Admins can be as anonymous as they want with the non-admin account similar to how our users here can be as anonymous as they want with their accounts
• im adding in some guidelines for tone while chatting for the admins so comments made that are on behalf of the instance should be respectful and not devolve to slap fights

Adopting an official policy of making admins use alt accounts for “non-admin activities” (which includes posting problematic garbage) doesn’t seem to address any of the problems that led to this, other than allowing the instance additional plausible deniability for their admin’s behavior. Really doesn’t seem very transparent to me.

I’d rather know what the admins of an instance stand for and are all about by their posts, so I can make an informed decision before engaging with any of the comms on their instance.