TIL that Truth Social is (was?) based on Mastodon
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Yep, it's a fork
Of course they violated the licence. I'm not even surprised that they did that, but i am somewhat puzzled by the fact that they did publish the source when asked to.
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Pay them? They should be paying us.
I'm not. The only thing they got going for them is the nazi in chief. The software was never the point.
One of the big smoking guns in this whole debacle was that people could reproduce known bugs in Mastadon in Truth Social, which basically made it impossible to deny that it wasn't a clone.
No, they didn’t. That’s the point.
An earlier version of it, but not in compliance with the GPL license
No, they weren’t. That’s the point.
The problem is that the source code wasn't uploaded by them.
Blocked
You think these fucks could possibly make anything of their own? Of course they went for a (free) off-the-shelf solution.
Nope. No imagination and no desire to improve anything.
I'm going to guess any critical vulnerabilities patched on the main branch since their fork might still be in there
oh well
their problem
Not only is it Mastodon, but before it released a bunch of folks went and looked it up. They realized it was Mastodon, but had no attribution. So Mastodon sent a 30 day notice to properly display the open source licensing or lose access to it. If they refused, then Mastodon could have taken them to court and almost certainly have easily won.
While I don't like Trump, or what he stands for, this is the power of open source. You want to create your own toxic sewage social network? You can. You want to create your own growing, beautiful, welcoming, social network, you can. You can build anything you want.
It's not the power of open source. It's the power of copy left licenses.
Oh, I guess right wing facists taking open source projects to make their own platforms is quite the trend.
Next Social, a Turkish platform made by the son-in-law of Erdogan was marketed as being national and locally made. It's literally just blue mastodon. Basically a one-to-one copy. They even breached the open source license, leading to this embarrassing fiasco!
Lmao, I saw their website before and really thought that they had built something new.
We have Pardus as well, which just turned out to be an Ubuntu reskin.
Not only that, but they didn’t change the default admin password, leading to Truth Social to immediately being
hackedpwned.A newer article: https://greenware-tech.com/truth-social-programming-languages-that-built-it/
as is GAB.
I'm shocked Gab is still around.
I used a spam email address to subscribe to that guys mailing list and every time I use that email to sign up for something sketchy, I see he's still sending 3-9 emails a day with rants and updates.
You'd think owning a social media would entail cryptic ranting on the platform and not a mailing list