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1. pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 20:17:28 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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   @graf @Moon @admin @john_rando @parker @sjw @verita84 Looks like, from the page, that they just do keyword search for gamer words; they are probably finding fedi accounts by the same means. The @admin account is only following one account on FSE: @eisai.
   
   Looks like it's very naive and their search barely works. Everything on the site that *does* work is off the shelf. I'd give it 5:1 that this is a project of people laundering grant money by delivering some barely passable work and paying salaries to friends, but it looks like they're just doing an Open Collective scam: https://opencollective.com/smat/expenses . Scroll down far enough on their front page and you see a row of logos that are not actually links, just images with event handlers attached. (It is not odd for scummy sites to clickwrap links, but it is a little odd to completely forego the links and rely entirely on JavaScript.) The last of those non-links goes to https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Distributed_Denial_of_Secrets , the organization that came out of nowhere to displace WikiLeaks, with a key difference: whereas Wikileaks never posted anything that embarrassed the Kremlin, DDoSecrets never posts anything that embarrasses the CIA. (I'm certain that this is purely coincidental. :terrylol:)
   
   At any rate, to make a long story short, if DDoSecrets is sending these guys money (and there also appears to be overlap between people employed by SMAT and people employed by DDoSecrets: https://opencollective.com/smat/expenses/136086 ), that's enough for me.
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