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Is the W3C known for astroturfing? I certainly haven't seen a check. ActivityPub has just kind of been there. A few million people got used to Mastodon and the
by Kye 4y ago
Is the W3C known for astroturfing? I certainly haven't seen a check.
ActivityPub has just kind of been there. A few million people got used to Mastodon and then some of them started to wonder how it works, and that leads them to ActivityPub. So now there's an audience for new and restored articles on it.
- pull_my_finger 4y agoNo, not W3C that I'm aware of. But I didn't know if it was some kind of gateway into other web3/crypto things that I have been trying to keep blissfully unaware about. I guess my spidey-sense starts tingling when my feeds get a particular interest that seem untimely/out of place.
- shapefrog 4y agoI am getting paid 8 figures a year from the Mercers & Soros (50-50 split) personally to astroturf MASTODON everywhere, plus another 6 figures a month from a consortium of Fox News and CNN to do similar work.
- Kye 4y agoThere was an attempt to reskin Mastodon as a cryptocurrency-based social network: https://medium.com/we-distribute/hiveway-io-shamelessly-rips-off-of-mastodon-and-slaps-a-blockchain-on-top-for-some-reason-57b7aba3e84f https://medium.com/we-distribute/hiveway-io-shamelessly-rips... One of John McAfee's latter pumps.