They didn't even bother to change the word "toot" on #TruthSocial in the Dutch language
Yes, he did not "build" TruthSocial but took #Mastodon source code and added anoher front end
The current source code is from 2022 meaning that they don't comply with the Mastodon licence OR they run a old version that has critical security flaws
@stux What's funny is that Truth Social is just a Mastodon fork with Alex Gleason's SoapBox frontend grafted back on.
SoapBox itself is a fork of Mastodon's own native single-column interface. Apparently, the dev couldn't get them to use anything other than Mastodon, which is pretty funny.
@stux@atomicpoet He's been gradually rehabilitating his image in the Nostr community, through his development work there.
A portion of Nostr just straight up doesn't care, possibly because the work is too valuable: cross-network bridges, Bitcoin payments for ActivityPub posts, a platform that does both AP and Nostr. Some parts of the network are also definitely more right-wing, religious, or into crypto.
@stux@deadsuperhero By itself, Nostr is just a simple protocol that works through relays.
In practice, almost all content there is about Bitcoin, various conspiracy theories, and AI spam.
The reason people gravitate towards Nostr is because they’re under the illusion that Nostr can’t be censored. This isn’t the case, however. Relays can be moderated and they are.
Seems possible that using an outdated version of Mastodon, with obvious security flaws (eliminated in the current version) - apart from being a typical lazy and cheap Trumpian way to offer goods to sell - is a good way to increase lucrative data mining from an already shit site.
Will Trump supporters laugh it off with, in for a penny, in for a pound, when they start losing control of their digital lives and money?
@stux@pthenq1 forget about safety: if they're lying about the licensing of the technology, that's already an SEC problem. if i were the Mastodon Foundation, i would totally ask US/EU lawfedi for pro-bono advice on this. Mastodon might end up with a lumpsum... or TS's stock might drop to pennies faster than it usually does with anything involving Trump. either way, win/win.
So, they at least think they’re abiding by the license, but I doubt the SEC cares about whether they’re abiding by an open source license.
Since Mastodon is licensed under the AGPLv3, any changes made to the source of a service using it must also be released under the same terms, and it doesn’t appear they’ve done that, so @Gargron would need to sue.
@blogdiva@stux@pthenq1@Gargron What’s interesting is that Eugen may not even need to bring the suit. The community might be able to do it, which I think is what happened with @conservancy in the Vizio case.
understandable, but if you're enough of a dipshit to have your stuff on such a horrendously insecure platform, then you're gonna do a lot of unpitiable Finding Out
@stux Also this OR isn't exclusive, in fact I'd doubt the server stayed unmodified since 2022 given the change of frontend, while not being and up-to-date mastodon server wouldn't surprise me at all.
I mean that's kind of the point of Free Software. Some people get mad that freedom doesn't have a political leaning, it's freedom for all, even big orange rapists.
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