Is it really? It seems like an enormous amount of effort for a prank. 18k commits on the main repo, tens of thousands of words of explanatory blog posts and documentation, etc.
That's how you know it was a successful prank: enough people fell for it for enough time to make all those commits and docs!
See also postmodernism which I still believe to be long-form trolling by Derrida et al., yet has attracted considerable scholarship and wields enormous influence over culture.
Considering the creator, it seems in the vein of Davis's TempleOS. Not a prank, but also not a thing really built for it's utility for the wider world.
See also postmodernism which I still believe to be long-form trolling by Derrida et al., yet has attracted considerable scholarship and wields enormous influence over culture.