Just did a quick write-up of the #Hiveway platform: https://medium.com/we-distribute/hiveway-io-shamelessly-rips-off-of-mastodon-and-slaps-a-blockchain-on-top-for-some-reason-57b7aba3e84f
@Gargron Yeah, I guess I should. 😛
@Gargron @deadsuperhero why do we want to give them the attention though?
@deadsuperhero this is true. I guess I'm more of a "proper channels" kind of person..
@sydneyfalk @maloki @deadsuperhero @Gargron I was going to say something similar to this
"this is the federated net. there are no rules. only battles to fight and glory to be won"
@deadsuperhero @maloki @Gargron
I just tooted... errr... tweeted @ them: https://twitter.com/MattCropp/status/970428437268746240
@deadsuperhero Huh. Interesting. Why do they go through all that trouble of ripping of Mastodon when you can just put a white paper online that says “this is a scam” and people will throw their money at you these days...? 🤔
add a hypecoin to it and it'll get critical mass. ripping of mastodon isn't cool but eh if it gets people to the federverse i am not complaining.
@jeff I'd recommend reading the whitepaper, it proposes are lot of things that are fundamentally incompatible with how the fediverse works.
@deadsuperhero Most impressive!
@deadsuperhero for what it's worth most people I have asked to search "hiveway" on Google here get your article as the first result just after their paid ad LOL
@deadsuperhero nice work!
I've polished up the article a bit to make things clearer about what some of the community's concerns are, and toned down a little bit on some of the inflammatory stuff. I still don't like #Hiveway, but hopefully this reads as a little bit more credible now.
@deadsuperhero tbh not giving credit for the work of others in the OS movement is a little like serving pork at a Bar Mitzvah. It doesn't go down well!
I would be fine with inflammatory, but it is a good article ;)
@deadsuperhero is anyone gonna submit to HN?