Of course they started with an existing platform to save time and money. When anyone else does it, it’s a smart way to save time and money. When anyone related to captain cheese ball does it, it’s because he’s cheap as shit. I wonder if the devs ever got paid.

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

They literally violated the AGPL license of Mastodon and thought they'd get away with it.
Literally the only reason why we know it's based on Mastodon is because of some smart redditor forcing a page crash exposing the Mastodon error message warranting further investigation.
It wasn't until they got called out and got a formal notification of the breach in terms that it got fixed; because if they didn't with the 30days allotted time they would've been sued.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So they have a public repository now? I'd like to see that

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Repo, no. Although some people have made them.

It’s a zip: https://opensource.truthsocial.com/mastodon-current.zip

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago

Honestly it is hilarious to me that they rather make a zip file then a repo.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 7 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, git as cloud storage, or GaCS for the business people.

Actually, there isn't even a repository stored in the zip because ✨ transparency ✨

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 year ago

Backstory that I hadn't known. Doesn't surprise me one bit. Cheers to whoever proved the theft.

[–] dullbananas@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

AGPL is beautiful https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html#license-text