michaelslade, 6 months ago

@brewsterkahle In the Truth app if you follow the crumbs:
Stars (top right) -> Preferences -> Legal -> Open Source
You see this with links to the various licenses:

wonkothesane, 6 months ago

@brewsterkahle Trump would never pay to built a network from scratch. So they essentially took the code, and claimed it as their own. You’ll noticed the error page on Truth Social is the same you get on Mastodon. Couldn’t even be bothered to do it 100%

ParadeGrotesque, 6 months ago

@brewsterkahle

Yes. It is a Mastodon instance.

It has been banned from pretty much every other Mastodon instance, and defederated to death.

beckett, 6 months ago

@brewsterkahle IIRC, truth dot social was built from mastodon code.

fsnk, 6 months ago

@brewsterkahle
yes
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social#Software

rm4, 6 months ago

@brewsterkahle part of the Fediverse but defederated from virtually everyone.

ajroach42, 6 months ago

@brewsterkahle truth social stripped all federation out, but is running a customized mastodon fork under the hood.

smellsofbikes, 6 months ago

@brewsterkahle that was my understanding: that it was a reskinned and isolated mastodon derived product.

baruch, 6 months ago

@brewsterkahle It's not Mastodon, but it was built on top of the Mastodon code base. https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/29/22752850/mastodon-trump-truth-social-network-open-source-gab-legal-notice

stereo, 6 months ago

@brewsterkahle
yes, i remember the @conservancy putting some "pressure" for the forks source to be released.