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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@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 :fediverse::blobcatscared:

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This site already permits even worse, like flagrant neoNazis...

@wattdefalk @stux @zleap one can't control other people. thats the imaginary job of govt and law coercement.

there's a fascinating book i'm reading that i was telling someon eelse about that i think you three may enjoy - "listen little man!" by wilhelm reich. can be found used on abebooks.com :)

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Trump puts himself first, How are people signing up to this, it is not meant to be launched till qtr1 of 2022 (cite : bbc news I think)

@zleap @wattdefalk @stux i dont know, i dont care about what anyone political does. they're all criminally insane. :-)
bitchute.com/video/7VKeSNXGoxd you may or may not find this interesting.

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