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Writing this down because I want to archive what happened/what might happen. I will update if anything interesting goes down later.
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To make a long story short: The Neocities site federiefederi is in hot water right now because people are starting to believe it was a follow4follow scam the whole time
To make a short story long: federiefederi (F+F for simplicity) is a Neocities site that takes buttons from lesser-known Neocities sites and adds them to their front page. Their whole mission is to give attention to unknown Neocities pages. Think Districts, but less complicated. The way people would get onto their page is if they followed F+F.
There were always rumours that the site was a follow4follow scheme, but most people were OK with overlooking that and supporting the project.
For a few months, everything was going smoothly, but just recently things started getting suspicious. At first, it began with F+F unfollowing everyone they previously followed, since it "deboosted" their site's chances of getting to the top of Neocities, according to them. Shortly after that announcement, F+F asked everyone who followed them if they'd stop supporting the project if they removed their button and cut off contact with them without warning (surprisingly, people said no, and they'd continue to support the project).
The post that broke the camel's back was one by F+F, where they said:
"we permanently block anyone who: 1. leaves our project without saying a
word, 2. is against our project or agrees with someone who is against
it, 3. has let us know explicitly that doesn't want to be part of it. |
we temporarily block anyone who: 1. we have let them know about our
project but haven't got an answer for several weeks, despite them being
active, 2. if we notice they don't want to be part of anything."
word, 2. is against our project or agrees with someone who is against
it, 3. has let us know explicitly that doesn't want to be part of it. |
we temporarily block anyone who: 1. we have let them know about our
project but haven't got an answer for several weeks, despite them being
active, 2. if we notice they don't want to be part of anything."
With that post, people began to leave the project. Some began to say that it was hypocritical of them to have this policy while advertising themselves as a friendly and open site. People are also starting to believe that the whole project was a follow4follow plan to get to the front page of Neocities. As of right now, people are posting that they want their button removed from their site. F+F has responded rather antagonistically to some of the posts, in one comment they said "you guys don't read anything, do you?".
This is happening in-the-moment, so whether this controversy will start an entire movement, or will amount to nothing remains to be seen.
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EDIT: As of April 16th or 17th, the site was deleted.
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