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:

@stux @zleap
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.

@ringo @wattdefalk @stux

Indeed, but schools have to filter certain content, at least in the UK they do.

@ringo @wattdefalk @stux

Most schools e.g primary don't exactly employ IT technical staff, so swgfl provide the actual internet access (so they are a service provider) so filtering is part of that,

@zleap @wattdefalk @stux oh interesting they always had an IT dept in my school district when i was growing up, unless you count pre 5th grade because it wasnt really relevant yet, they just bought comps from vendors like apple or whatnot

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@ringo @wattdefalk @stux

Secondary schools employ IT tech staff, primary schools may employ one as part of an academy network (group of schools) but i was under the impression some of that is more phone tech support and click buttons.

Problem is explaining fedi to them they need to understand and care enough to explain properly to others.

We could end up with the whole of Mastodon tarred with a 'danger' tag and along with that those who use it.

Something none of us want, ironically they are happy to use facebook despite the reports of kids being untapped wealth in their view.

@ringo @wattdefalk @stux

And all the other 'known' bad side effects of facebook _ related patforms

add to that schools here in the UK are now banned from promoting anti capatialist material (not quite sure what the UK government mean by that) but freedom to look up info and choose things is kinda diminished.

Schools use zoom, google etc they are tied in, locked in and don't know alternatives.

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