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 :)

@ringo @stux @zleap
I wasn't wishing I could make NeoNazis go away, just saying Drumpf's handlers picked a very effective site for him

@wattdefalk @stux @zleap I'm more concerned navigating a world where the graphene flagship has 7/10ths of the world connected to a graphene oxide brain melding thing, and or whatever is actually happening out there. its going to be a shit storm of epic proportions, regardless of what the causalities are, or the intentionality is behind the whole mess.

@ringo @wattdefalk @stux

It would be interesting to see if any schools block this. I tried to contact South West Grid for Learning, who issue internet safety advice, but I want to invite them here to fedi (so far ignred) it would be helpful if they blocked trumps new instance ASAP esp if people can sign up, as I got one impressiion it was invite only

I wonder if someone either trump or someone in his team has failed to understand how the instance software works.

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I have not contacted swgfl over the trump site it was the other day to invite them here, (own instance ideally)

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