A small question to Telegram / TON developers
mason
Hello, dear champions of freedom of speech, decentralization, Web3, and all those beautiful buzzwords from your pitch decks.
I’m writing here because, as practice shows, this is often the only way to reach real people instead of bots, forms, and automated “we will review your request” replies.
Let me say this upfront - I’m writing without hate, out of care. If I didn’t care, I wouldn’t write at all. But when you spend months building an honest project, investing your own money, time, and nerves, and in return you get a SCAM label without any explanation - it becomes hard to stay silent.
This is about the DICKSHOTI project and the bot @dickshotibot.
Yes, the name is provocative.
Yes, it’s satire.
Yes, it’s memes.
But the core of the project is anti-scam.
Literally:
- exposing scammers in the TON ecosystem;
- warning users;
- taking a clear public stance;
- no hidden schemes;
- no “pay us and we’ll promote you”;
- not a single token sold by me personally.
So what do we get?
1. Token verification denied - without any reason
Just “no”. Why? For what? Which rules were violated? Silence.
Okay, we solved it ourselves via DeDust.
Decentralization, right?
2. SCAM label on the bot
And this is where the real circus starts.
A bot that:
- fights scams,
- sells nothing,
- collects no donations,
- doesn’t mislead users,
- doesn’t promise moonshots or 100x gains,
gets a SCAM label.
No dialogue.
No evidence.
No explanation.
Just: “You are a scam. Because we said so.”
3. Meanwhile…
The Memhash project, which collected donations and simply pocketed them, still has official verification.
How does that even work?
Anti-scam = scam.
Real scam = everything is fine, verified.
So this is “freedom of speech, Telegram-style”.
4. Some numbers, so it’s clear this isn’t a tiny project
Before the block, the bot had:
- Total users: 17,423
- With wallets: 1,433
- Invited users: 6,549
And this was without aggressive marketing - just organic growth and community.
After the next release, we expected growth by tens of times.
And then - boom, SCAM label and functionality effectively blocked.
Coincidence?
Accident?
Or did someone actually get uncomfortable?
5. The main question
You like to talk about:
- how governments pressure you,
- how you support freedom,
- how you fight censorship,
- how you build honest Web3.
But in reality:
an honest anti-scam project gets blocked,
and shady schemes get verified.
How does that make any sense?
Official request (no jokes here)
Good afternoon.
I request an official explanation for the blocking of the Telegram bot (mini-app) DICKSHOTI @dickshotibot, which was labeled as SCAM, and I also ask for this decision to be reviewed and for the project to be unblocked.
The DICKSHOTI project is public and open, has an active user community, and was originally created as a tool to counter scam activity on Telegram.
At the moment, the project:
- does not promote scam schemes;
- does not mislead users;
- does not perform hidden financial operations;
- does not harm users and is aimed at protecting them.
Therefore, I request:
- an official explanation of the reasons for the SCAM label;
- references to the specific Telegram rules that were allegedly violated;
- a review of this decision and possible unblocking of the project.
Because right now this looks not like moderation, but like selective censorship.
The cherry on top
Despite all this, we’ll simply move the functionality to our website:
The scam list will exist.
There will be reviews.
There will be reputation for founders and influencers.
There will be a community.
So what’s next?
Will you put a SCAM label on the website too?