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   Tim Perry (pimterry@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 10:56:11 JST Tim Perry

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   • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

   @rysiek Surely those rules themselves are part of the joke.

   https://brands.town/@northropgrumman/109350050771003964 for example seems unlikely to have been approved by corporate PR. And https://brands.town/@Microsoft/109349870223193274 is offering "Bloodtype sign-in" for the next Windows release, while https://brands.town/@apple literally just says "The joke is we have no posts" ? It's all a bit postmodern & weird, but it's definitely parody.

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 10:56:12 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

     I really thought brands.town was meant to be a parody instance.

     It is not, apparently:
     https://brands.town/public/local
     https://brands.town/about

     > Upon registration, Brands must be original properties, not impersonations. Detected impersonations will be immediately rejected, we will also immediately delete impersonations upon request from corporations or legal counsel.

     Ah well. *plonk*

     Edit: confirmed parody, but way too close to the real thing for me; I feel it normalizes corporate brands on fedi. ?♀️