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1. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Sunday, 04-Mar-2018 17:29:07 EST Sean Tilley
   Hiveway.io shamelessly rips off of Mastodon and slaps a blockchain on top, for some reason
   
   
   
   
   

   The Hiveway platform raised more than a few eyebrows today with an announcement by none other than John McAfee, unveiling the startups rebrand from Etherhive to Hiveway. At this time, McAfee’s affiliation with the project remains unclear, but he nevertheless appears to be providing consultation to the team. This is all fine and good, however, one detail sticks out like a sore thumb: Hiveway is a complete and utter ripoff of Mastodon.

   
   
   #Hiveway #Mastodon #Blockchain
   1. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Sunday, 04-Mar-2018 17:34:34 EST Sean Tilley

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      @dsh WTF!!
   2. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Sunday, 04-Mar-2018 18:11:56 EST Sean Tilley

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      mcafee just pumps a random altcoin/ico every day, everyone knows already. :-]
      
      probably he desperately needs money.
   3. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Sunday, 04-Mar-2018 18:57:23 EST Sean Tilley

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      Pffft. yea, right. I've seen three this past week already.. MeWe, gab.ai, and now this one. Apparently, all the corporations are trying to hop on the decentralized bandwagon. LOL
   4. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Sunday, 04-Mar-2018 21:39:44 EST Sean Tilley

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      "Altcoin": Where the market is not yet, it has to be there.
   5. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 05-Mar-2018 03:08:01 EST Sean Tilley

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      They're not even the first to use a blockchain as a social network...
      
      https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
   6. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 05-Mar-2018 06:06:02 EST Sean Tilley

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      And Mastodon is an utter ripoff of another project, so what?
      1. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 05-Mar-2018 06:17:02 EST Sean Tilley

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         Where had Mastodon took the source code from?
   7. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 05-Mar-2018 10:05:09 EST Sean Tilley

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      scuttlebutt is not a blockchain (thank god), it's just p2p
   8. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 05-Mar-2018 12:25:35 EST Sean Tilley

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      @Michael I thought they meant a ripoff, meaning product concept, not a fork of the actual source.
      1. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 05-Mar-2018 12:59:57 EST Sean Tilley

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         This "Hiveway" is just a copy of the code from Mastodon. In difference the design of Mastodon is just optical orientated after Tweetdeck. This is a huge difference, I think.
   9. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 05-Mar-2018 13:02:01 EST Sean Tilley

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      The log store of Scuttlebutt is implemented as a blockchain. It's not the typical power-hungry Proof-of-Work coin blockchain, but still, it's a blockchain. From the Documentation:
      
      Note that append-only means you cannot delete an existing message, or change your history. This is enforced by a per-feed blockchain. This is to ensure the entire network converges on the same state.
      
      https://scuttlebot.io/more/protocols/secure-scuttlebutt.html
   10. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 05-Mar-2018 21:30:40 EST Sean Tilley

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       are you sure they are running mastodon code?    
       
       view the html source . ,, looks to me more like wix.com ..
       
       
       guessing they they might have taken the design of the front page put it into that "free website builder" thingy...
       
       
       
       oh ok .. I guess you mean what they have on github   ...
       
       
       are there actually any sites running that code?
       
       
       
       even the blurb seems to smell a bit like  -  
       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Money_Fast
       
       
   11. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Mar-2018 05:57:16 EST Sean Tilley

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       Forking an AGPLv3 project is good, that is why we have licenses and forks just increase diversity. But this wasn't done as a fork. The whole commit history was rewritten and apparently the UI has no source code link for users. The copyright file though does mention it is a fork of Mastodon.
   12. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Mar-2018 08:28:27 EST Sean Tilley

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       by a per-feed blockchain

       
       ahahaha then they're riding the hype bandwagon. People nowadays say "blockchain" when it's a git-for-xyz like solution. "per-feed" would mean it's not even git, it's even simpler. That would mean your file system is also a blockchain. Why not, it does have blocks. :D
   13. Sean Tilley (dsh@deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Mar-2018 11:56:14 EST Sean Tilley

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       MS-DOS could make a comeback if it billed itself as a block-chain file system!