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Not a big sneer, but I was checking my spam box for badly filtered spam and saw a guy basically emailing me 'hey you made some contributions to open source, these are now worth money (in cryptocoins, so no real money), you should claim them, and if you are nice you could give me a finders fee. And eurgh im so tired of these people. (thankfully he provided enough personal info so I could block him on various social medias).
Possibly tea.xyz or similar.
Basically the guy famous for the ~~binary tree invert algorithm~~ Homebrew package manager thought it would be a great idea to incentivize spammy behavior against open source projects in the name of "supporting" them.
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=teaxyz-spam
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=teaxyz-causes-open-source-software-spam-problems-again
happy pride month
starknet-io actually, so there is more of this crap. (Which could also not be related and this all could be some other scam btw, and if it isn't I think the amount is just high enough to become a tax hassle so lol nope.)
E: also why do some replies not show up in my inbox?
Could be the system the commenter posted to is having trouble federating to your instance. So their comment is federated from their system to the community instance, but not from the community instance to yours.
Edit: nevermind, this is all on the same instance.
also featured here a few weeks ago, check the local search for some more things
I got the same thing.
From a guy called N... Vi...? (I'm not going to further call the guy out, that is just a bit weird to hate on a single weird person).
fuckit, name and shame. it's not like they gave a shit about your privacy
Nah, im good.
Yup.