Y'all
Pawoo is run by pixiv, which is a sizeable company in Japan. Hiveway wasn't the first.
The outrage was prevented by the language barrier and the fact it's widely filtered (not getting into the nuts and bolts of that one).
Where was your outrage then? For a site profiting from artists and giving nothing back.
Is it just cause Hiveway use English and a crazy drug-addicted weirdo who got rich through a swindle made it? Just like every other commercial social media site?
Hell, it ain't even the first in class. Some instances experimented with charging membership fees. I've seen ones that do ads.
I see nothing new? Just an old tired meme and a bunch of angry Communists who found a new thing to be mad about.
@Elizafox Pawoo didn't take steps to hide its Mastodon roots, and didn't simultaneously rip off previously established mobile apps (instead they built their own)
It feels more like hiveway is a quick attempt to grab attention with little effort and a lot of relying on other people's work, while completely denying the latter.
Just like your typical altcoin, I guess?