It is an intentionally misleading and false statement to claim that WaterNeuron is CodeGov-controlled. CodeGov is involved as a participant in the WaterNeuron SNS as a publicly announced neuron that has advocated for and helped advance decentralization of the WaterNeuron protocol through our participation in governance as permissioned by the SNS framework. The CodeGov WTN neuron contains only 3300 WTN staked, which is a dust level of stake. That means that all voting power that we trigger is owned by other people who have chosen to follow us and they are free to follow someone else at any time for any reason. In fact, CodeGov is very vocal about encouraging that everyone votes independently as much as possible and promoting all other publicly announced neurons to the WaterNeuron community. These announcements have been made on OpenChat here and on the DFINITY forum here. Hence, if you subscribe to the accusations made by Adam (@borovan) in this thread, then feel free to change your following. Doing so will help improve decentralization, so there is no downside to making a change.
In addition to the above efforts to offer decentralization options to the community, CodeGov also recognizes that WaterNeuron is responsible for triggering a considerable and growing amount of voting power in the NNS. This voting power is triggered by the decisions made by the WTN SNS on NNS proposals that are replicated into the Vote for NNS Proposals proposal type. This means that every NNS proposal also becomes an WTN SNS proposal and everyone who has neurons on both protocols has to vote for the same proposals twice. Instead of casting these votes twice, CodeGov built an open source vote relay app (see GitHub repo here) and announced it on the forum here for the community to use. There are multiple ways to take advantage of this vote relay app including following a WTN known neuron such as CodeGov or DFINITY, setting up your own NNS/WTN neuron pairs using the CodeGov owned canister, or forking the CodeGov repo and setting up your own vote relay canister. Instructions are provided in the ReadMe on GitHub linked above. The possibilities are endless on how you can use this app to make sure that your WTN vote is cast according to your own best interest on NNS proposals.
The CodeGov NNS neuron and the CodeGov WTN neuron are both configured to follow a number of known and well respected people in the ICP ecosystem on a variety of topics in which they specialize. You can always see how these neurons are configured by visiting our website at codegov.org. We are intentional about voting on every proposal in a credible and reliable way by putting people who care about the network and who are motivated to participate consistently in the position to cast the CodeGov neuron vote.
Hence, if you think that CodeGov has too much influence on the WaterNeuron vote on NNS proposals, then do something about it by voting manually, changing who you follow, setting up your own NNS/WTN pairs, or becoming your own WaterNeuron known neuron. CodeGov advocates for advancing decentralization of the NNS and of the WaterNeuron protocol in all of these ways.