It does look like #hiveway has pulled some amateur-hour shit, and I am very curious to see how they respond to getting called out.
If they turn out to be not totally scammy, there's some interesting intention around a self-governed fully decentralized #mastodon instance. We've been learning a lot about instance self-governance at #socialcoop, and still have much to figure out, so I'm curious as to the in-depth rationales for their architecture.