Ethereum Classic can not compete with Eth when the Ethereum Classic's strategies are not strong enough and effective. Ethereum Classic should focus on building and developing communities and even bounty. bounty or airdrop is the crux of effective advertising strategy! All information about Ethereum Classic please update to us soon !!!
Sounds like a shitcoin strategy to me, ETC is not that desperate trust me, there is a lot going on, just gotta be patient.
For all of the users wondering about ETC development you should join the etc discord server.
https://ethereumclassic.org/roadmap/ This is the general road map, but a lot of good things have been added which are not listed in this roadmap.
I wouldnt recommend joining ETC Telegram group as it is being run by a douchebag from what ive heard, but its not a "official etc telegram" as there aren't any official groups, anyone can create and manage a chat group so don't let that affect your opinion
But yeah as I suggest if you want to know more about ETC news/development you should join ETC discord group which is being managed by users from ETCDEV team (ETCDEV team is one of the developer groups who develop for etc)