They may still be on negotiations. I can picture Truth as “Y, the social network that comes after X”. It sure can’t fail. Then a merge can happen, they can call it Z or Musk may be bold about it and call it Ω.
Uft, imagine if that happened and musk chose a single unicode character as the domain?!
Unicode are already sanitised from domains, because there are ubicode characters that look like - but are distinct from - ascii characters… which opens a huge pandoras box of MITM attacks of malicious sites on domains that visually look the same as legit domains.
If musk wants a single unicode character, all the browsers are going to have to figure out that can of worms
Seriously, tho. Couldn’t you see it? Some fat guy with an orange and white face, a menacing scowl, scant and lengthy piss-yellow wisps winding and crowning his countenance, an oversized suit dwarfing his hands, with a red tie down to his knees. Ridi, pagliacco!
Yup, and the Mastodon devs almost took them to court for stealing their code. Of course at the last minute Trump Media published their changes to Mastodon to adhere to the GPL.
Trump is insanely greedy, greed is literally the only thing he knows. It doesn’t matter if he picked up a dead leaf from a pile in the middle of autumn, he’d want to sell it to someone.
Unfortunately some dumbass maga moron would probably buy it…
It’s probably got some value, and I’d guess that its utility is either gonna be to politicians who want access to information about social media users who support Trump or to some other social media network that is already working on monetization, so that it can reuse existing stuff.
I’m skeptical that it’s worth much, though. The value is gonna be in the userbase.
Users: estimated 607,000 monthly users as of July 2023[4]
That’s not a whole lot.
Ostensibly a place for freer speech than Twitter, Truth Social
If Musk wants to create a separate social media platform with less-restrictive rules on content, I’d imagine that he’d be in a pretty good position to do that. He’s already got a codebase. Just needs to have a separate comment database from Twitter.
Why would he do that, when he could smart-ass his way into a legally binding contract to buy Twitter for much more money, and then trash it until it’s interchangeable with Truth?
Though I must say I’m still upset at the losers that are still on twitter.
I feel like people changed drastically over the last two decades and are more likely to accept being fucked in the ass by corporations.
Remember what happened to digg when they changed the site to control the articles that are being posted? Or to Myspace when it was purchased by Murdoch?
Well, The Battle of Blair Mountain happened because the workers were sick of being paid in company scrip, living in company housing, and shopping and company stores. So maybe we’re not back to that yet. But dont ever forget that is the end goal for all these shit stains.
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