You should approach the people spreading rumors and reprimand them for spreading lies.

SOM has been around for ages, has benefitted each and every user, never had any negative effects on anyone, our benefit to all members is proven and immutable and as a consequence not disputable, we have an open community and have been running the service 100% free of charge for years to counteract the actual scams on hive, namely paid voting rings and other curation trails that only cost their users instead of benefit them, pull in and chat with us if you have doubts, there are no detrimental aspects to this project.

if you have doubts, feel free to contact us at https://discord.gg/NED33mNpms

and well if anybody is reading this, drop in we'll happily answer any questions, and join the service if you're keen, we're probably the only software project on hive that's actually benfitting its users, and its an excellent way to counter act the scammy behavior of whales and other services on hive.