Mastodon's Founder Says Trump's New Social Network Is Just Mastodon
'Truth Social', which will launch officially later in the year, is seemingly using Mastodon's codebase without credit.
Former President Donald Trump’s new social network ’Truth Social’ is seemingly a thinly disguised fork of popular social network codebase Mastodon.
Its terms also say that “all source code” of Truth Social is proprietary. That might run afoul of Mastodon’s own license.
“The main thing is that Mastodon is free software, released under the AGPLv3 license, so anyone can use it—provided they comply with the license. The main part of the license is making the source code and any modifications to it available to the public,” Rochko told Motherboard. With Truth Social saying that its code is proprietary “that would be a problem, as that would indicate a license violation,” Rochko added.
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgm5k/truth-social-is-mastodon-trump
@stux Well maybe it will boost the use / awareness of free software, which can't be a bad thing.
@zleap I was thinking the same, but not sure we need his followers on here 
@stux Just a case of blocking them.
@zleap Already done 
This is fine for those of us here who understand that. The issue will be the masses who don't and will form their own ideas etc.
I would suspect you are right otherwise Trumps new pet project would not last very long on here with everyone blocking him.
Like with my comment about Trump inventing this, we need to ensure we have a robust, consistent response to statements to the contrary of what the 'actual' situation is.
Will be fun, but like most people here we probably have better things. May be a good idea to put a statement out (once we know the situation ) so that we can refer people to it, but that can also be found with a simple ddg search, that way we can also say we don't have time to argue with people too bone idle ( or dumb) to research this.
@neko @stux
>I would suspect you are right otherwise Trumps new pet project would not last very long on here with everyone blocking him.
I am not going to block #Trump.
But I think there might be dramas like:
Eugen: I am going to block you if you are not going to block Trump!!!