I forgot Mastodon was on F-Droid, shoulda checked there first
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Of course they started with an existing platform to save time and money. When anyone else does it, it’s a smart way to save time and money. When anyone related to captain cheese ball does it, it’s because he’s cheap as shit. I wonder if the devs ever got paid.
They literally violated the AGPL license of
Mastodon and thought they'd get away with it.
Literally the only reason why we know it's based on Mastodon is because of some smart redditor forcing a page crash exposing the Mastodon error message warranting further investigation.
It wasn't until they got called out and got a formal notification of the breach in terms that it got fixed; because if they didn't with the 30days allotted time they would've been sued.
So they have a public repository now? I'd like to see that
Repo, no. Although some people have made them.
It’s a zip: https://opensource.truthsocial.com/mastodon-current.zip
Honestly it is hilarious to me that they rather make a zip file then a repo.
Ah yes, git as cloud storage, or GaCS for the business people.
Actually, there isn't even a repository stored in the zip because ✨ transparency ✨
Backstory that I hadn't known. Doesn't surprise me one bit. Cheers to whoever proved the theft.
Lol the posts are called Truths. Someone should start Fake Social where the posts are called Fakes. And you can Refake others Fakes.
They actually tried to hide that fact and even removed references to Mastodon in the UI until SF Conversancy threatened to sue them and permanently cut their license to it.
Yeah, the main reason I remember is they almost got sued over not disclosing it I think
The truthier something claims to be, the less it is.
When I was out for a walk the other month, I saw a newspaper in a waterproof bag, propped up at the side of the path by a hedge. It was called The Light, and boldly claimed to be "the uncensored truth". Would you believe it, it turned out to be full of Covid conspiracy nonsense and anti-semitism.
In my day we just found discarded grotty porn in hedges, now it's right wing nutbaggery. I fear for our youth. We need to distribute more copies of Reader's Wives and Razzle across the flora and fauna of Britain.
They took the centerfolds out of Playboy, then stopped printing it altogether and look where it’s got us. Soggy forest porn was a rite of passage for many young froods, along with the VHS tapes with an innocuous label like a Disney cartoon affixed atop. Here in the states we have the Mormons and JWs passing around their rags, extolling various exclusionary ideologies and the same anti vax stuff while their congregations are all getting infected en masse. Fucking madness, I want to try another planet 👍
You don't live near Mansfield do you? I used to see that all the time around there (I moved away recently) and I made a point of picking them up and throwing them away.
I'm down the M1 a bit in sunny Long Eaton.
I suspect one of the canal boat people left it. Most of them seem normal enough, but you do have the odd ones with golliwogs in their boat windows, or alt-righty looking flags flying.
TS:The truth, the main stream media don't want you to know!!!
Me:Like what?..
TS:HUNTER BIDENS!!!
Me: Biden kid ok?
TS:HIS LAPTOP!!!
Me:His laptop what?
TS:HIS LAPTOP!!
Me:Got it the US government needs fresh blood who knows how to use a laptop like Hunter Biden.
TS:Arghhh argghh Arghhh Rawr LAPTOP!!
Meaning of story not many old politicians know how yo use laptops, I think?
bbbbUT THE LAPTOP!!!!! ITS FULL OF STUFF!!! TRUST ME I SAID SO!!!! HUNTER BAD HE HAS A LAPTOP!!!!
5 minutes ago I searched the app store for the word "Arby's". First result? The Hardee's app. SEO is a cancer.
It’s almost entirely just pay to play these days
Truth Social is built with Mastodon fun fact lmao
Yep, and I'm pretty sure they almost got sued over not disclosing it too
If it's based in Mastodon then it's he wrong to say it's the exact opposite of Mastodon, no?
That's like saying a Lemmy app is the opposite of another Lemmy app, if one app defaulted to Lemmygrad and the other to Exploding Heads.
They meant in other contexts. As in, the latter is a decent platform full of ways to find educated, diverse commentary. The former is an echo chamber filled with rancid, hate-filled bullshit.
Well, more of the antithesis since the kind/stance of the content
But there’s a difference between branding and backend implementation.
If I search for Lemmy.world and I get back hexbear, are you going to say that’s the right result since they are both Lemmy?
It's essentially forked mastodon. There's no federation with it. It's just using the core functionality. Plus Mastodon's development had a goal and vision. TruthSocial is somewhat antithetical to it.
Yup, they didn't comply with the license Mastodon uses (Affero General Public License) by not publishing the source code and making it accessible via something like a button and they got a legal notice to either add one or get sued
Is it weird that I find the "Teen" category the most disturbing?
No, I found that disturbing too. What rating do you give something that's not fit for consumption at any age? NSFL?
This is a sponsored app, if you notice it's an add. They likely paid to get there. The actual search result is below the add
It is an ad, and also a really shitty practice to display it exactly like it was the first result of your research.
I dunno, it says right there "ads related to your search"
It was designed to blend in with the search results. It's the same shitty design as the sponsored results appearing like they were the first few results of your Google or Bing search, or ads appearing as unread emails in Gmail or Hotmail.
Yeah, I get it, I am just saying that companies have been doing that for a long time now, and we gotta just be computer literate enough to discern the difference. It's shitty, I agree
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The most surprising thing is that TS actually have enough money to pay for google ads.
Not really, his supporters are dumping so much money for his legal defences, he's got 3 PAC, of which he's using 2. On top of that it appears that he's OK with investing his own money if that weren't enough. And he's got billions of private funds...
Sure, but the company behind TS is in big financial troubles. The raised money definitely doesn't go into TS itself.
Yeah, but ads are supposed to be enticing; that was supposed to be part of the joke but apparently neither worked haha
Did you mean Master Don?
Well truth social is a mastodon server so same thing?
Truth Social is on android now? Heck yeah finally, time for some entertainment!