Only in the same way that stealing code from a PoC would make me racist, stealing code from a Jew would make me anti-semitic or stealing code from a woman would make me sexist.
Since, without proof of any of that you're just making shit up I'm going to go with the reason that your post is being downvoted is that ITS JUST FUCKING STUPID.
I like the overal effect but it's hiding the true nature of boosting.
Boosting shares a piece of content with your followers. Favouriting does not. Kbin does not yet contain a follower feed, but it is planned. This is what that looks like on Mastodon:
and into this drain
It looks like I'm not the only one left fumbling in my pocket, praying I had another one.
Sadly, until federation is working, it may as well not exist.
That said, when it does start working I look forward to the battle of the f1 communities.
I'm just looking forward to news item Reddit puts out gaslighting everyone into thinking nothing of real consequence happened.
For an organisation hosting as many companies data as this one I'd expect automated tape at a minimum. Of course, if the attacker had the time to start messing with the tape that's lost as well but it's unlikely.