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Pretty much everything 'new' is a scam these days.
Unless you're really involved, it's best to wait awhile and jump onboard only after the guinea pigs have proven its worth.
I don't know anything about this platform in particular, but I will say that early adoption and support for new web services, platforms, and software that try to break conventional molds or even just exist as competition in the current landscape is an important way to combat enshittification. I mean we are all on lemmy which is an example of this, as are a lot of newer OS and privacy tools/apps. It's always risky, but new things can't start unless some people are willing to take that risk early. Especially things that aren't backed by endless dollars.
But in this case super shitty everyone lost everything they purchased
On the flipside, when we had the Discord age verification thing a few days ago, I saw a lot of Slop "alternatives" being promoted. All with bold claims and shiny at a first glance. But the chance of them going anywhere is slim to none. And the quality of the ones I checked was crap. So I kind of empathize with the argument. Like half of the new stuff is a trap, and you really need to pay attention.
I guess the question becomes if people mass migrated to those platforms would they grow and improve or remain shitty, which is always hard to tell. But small projects without many people are always going to be..at best janky right out the gate. Which discord alternatives did you feel were a trap, so I can avoid those ones?
The biggest one I saw was https://fluxer.app/ it has all the right marketing and investing, but also it had a single dev dumping assloads of code per day, but somehow it wasnt ai coded at all. I'm still watching it, because it got a lot of funding in the last push to see if it failss or if it actually goes well.
I wouldn't trust anything important on it though.
Sorry, I didn't keep bookmarks. I got them from various random places. And some of the posts (in the Threadiverse) got removed. Warning signs are, all files got touched in the last few days. No or little stars, issue reports... A single contributor who programmed a mere 4 days at super-human speed... And if you're familiar with the programming language, you can spot more. Weird project layout, remnants from previous agent runs and the user figuring out how to prompt. Overly verbose comments or none at all...
I'd question if these projects take off after a while. I mostly wasted time with what I tried anyway. Either it works. But it's not even close to the feature set it claims to have and what's available with real Free Software projects. Or you'll find out after a while, the install instructions were made up and none of it runs in the first place. I didn't spot anything in between, that mostly works but is just a bit shitty.
Is it a scam or just a filed business?
How can you tell the difference?
The answer here is Blockchain. Anyone who's bought into Blockchain has been scammed and is just perpetuating it or an outright grifter.
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I'm not an investor. Sorry.
So how do you tell the difference between a scam and a failed buisness?
You'll figure it out after you give me your money
Sounds great! Can I invest now, but pay in 4 easy rates?