I just joined substratum telegram group literally asked one sentence about where are the nodes because I heard they where going to be released in early January, and we are way past that date. And they instantly banned me! what the hell is that about, now I cant type anything there!
I got banned from their chat a long time too for asking some technical question and about the beta.
This doesn't sound good, indeed. Substratum is a great project but I really don't like the way they are working (if they are). They make people (including me) thinking about thing like scams, etc... (even if I really hope it isn't)