You do have an interesting point on the political aspect, and I respect you for voicing it to the opposition even though I personally really hate Trump as a person and a public figure. As a side note though, Trump is absolutely not following the license. Their TOS says outright that they own all the code, which they don't.

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.

I think this is probably the biggest issue people on the open source community has with this.

[+] nutomic@lemmy.ml -7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Trump is not a very charming person, but I really prefer him over a slick war criminal like Obama.

And I fully agree about the license, thats why I added the disclaimer. Luckily it should be pretty easy to relaunch the site and publish the code.

[–] uthredii@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

There are quiet clear foreign policy differences between Obama and Trump.

Obama approached Iran diplomatically, Trump bombed a general, probably trying to start a war.

Under Obama US military was in Kurdistan, which prevented Turkey from attacking. Trump removed the troops just as Turkey was gearing up to attack.

Edit: Also Obama removed the blockade on Cuba. Trump resumed the blockade on Cuba.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

(Political hot take alert for the following!) Personally, I dislike the majority of the US presidents pretty equally. Obama is just liked by the liberals more and did a better job of not gaining mainstream media backlash, but they both committed their fair share of war crimes, Biden too. Trump actually ordered more drone strikes in four years than Obama in eight.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 years ago

Trump also took a lot of the safeguards off drone strikes that were designed to avoid civilian casualties. Not that things were perfect under Obama, but not only did it get worse under Trump but the reporting/accountability measures also went away.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Honestly I dont think the president has that much to decide when it comes to military actions. What he does is announce the decisions of the military (or in other words, he is "following their recommendations"). Biden cant even remember the name of the Australian president after "being in talks" with him for weeks. His whole job seems to be reading from teleprompters (or trying to recite a speech, and stumbling).

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Fair point. The warlords and ultra rich run the show. The president is honestly more of a figure head than people realize. Though my point is that Trump is still as big a war criminal than Obama all things considered, as are the rest of the US military leadership.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, when Trump was in charge millions of Americans suddenly started paying attention to the actual policy of the administration, then when Biden got elected they promptly went back to sleep. The border camps being an excellent example of this.

[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Westerners keep thinking that one of their advantages over somewhere like China is that apparently they're free to criticize the government's tyranny as much as they want and however they want in the media.

Yeah, between their "criticisms" mostly being memes and shitposts, the government just ignoring them, and them only doing it when it's convenient for them, it's working real great as a tool for improving their countries isn't it?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago

I think this is the real genius of the western system. People easily conflate their freedom to scream into the void with having actual power. There's a pretty big difference between being able to criticize the system and being an actual stakeholder.