Interesting you only have a problem with this after you got kicked out. Certainly no reason it could be exaggerated or straight up untrue. 🤔

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To be clear, I’m not saying it is sketchy. I’m saying that giving absolutely zero information on a service they are ostensibly promoting makes it look sketchy. Giving even a simple breakdown of their goals and process is really the least they could do.

They may want to add a description of what the hell it is, instead of just linking to a website that is only an email gathering prompt. Right now all I can gather from comments on it is that it monetizes the fediverse “somehow”, but there’s zero explanation of where the money comes from, who it goes to, who the whole thing supports, etc etc. If they don’t want to seem sketchy as hell, they should be forthcoming about who they are and how they work.