a little update on the situation, looks like Truth Social has 30 days to comply or their license is being permanently revoked.
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2021
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I think what most of us are wondering is if there's any reason they can't just comply. It would be awfully suspicious.
not sure if this is a hot take or not but honestly, i don't think there's any malevolent reason, like weird telemetry or anything like that. i believe they may have wanted to make the effort look like it was grassroots and that the app was revolutionary, completely concocted by their brilliant engineers, so as to liberate the internet and let digital freedom reign.
the app was announced in time for Trump's SPAC, which was up something like 500% after the Truth Social announcement. i imagine that if they advertised the platform as a fork of an existing technology, "borrowing" an existing theme, and slapping some patriotic propaganda on top of it wouldn't exactly excite the market or entice usage.
i really do wonder why they didn't just create their own instance and celebrate the concept of federation? decentralization as a buzzword is so in right now, it really would have helped their case, i think.
ironically, TRUTH Social as a platform was created in the most disingenuous fashion. hopefully it makes people lose faith in these crooked people. unfortunately, it will probably not play out that way and people will continue to crown deceit as truth and sink further into their disillusion.
at times, i even feel pity for folks being led astray by a government that is supposed to protect their interests, but then i remember all of the awful things "truthers" have said to me about my skin color, my beliefs, etc and i throw away the idea of giving someone free empathy. which is a roundabout way to say, i hope this thing gets fucked into oblivion.
Problem is years of being lied to is hard to break free from and frankly painful and if you don't have the emotional and/or intellectual capacity to break through all the decades of bullying/lies and psychological manipulation that the system creates Trump like figures are 'truth'. Nothing will make them lose faith.
Shit, FOSS is being decimated by 'open source'. So what these wankers have done is fairly inconsequential. Corporate capture is the real problems shit I'm still devastated that people that didn't leave github sigh starting to rant...
Don't feel pity and try not to waste any empathy but unless we understand the reasons we'll keep going down what is now a very dark road but I think the 'covid' crisis tells us that the 1% are not going to cede anything and yeah imagine if we tackled the climate crisis with the same level of propaganda being used in relation to covid, the world would be a much better place.. Don't know why we can't start calling them health/death profiteers and get it too stick, so fucking dystopian but hey it's easier to just go with the flow till it's too late..
i really do wonder why they didn’t just create their own instance and celebrate the concept of federation? decentralization as a buzzword is so in right now, it really would have helped their case, i think.
I guess maybe they were afraid of all the news that their server would be blocked by so many on the fediverse?
I am glad that they didn't do this, it would have meant a ton of work to block the incoming idiots, they would join other servers as well. I remember gab pushing right-wingers everywhere on the fediverse
so this post is now "hot" because someone decided to necropost here?
The filter needs some serious work. I keep seeing way too many ancient posts on "hot"
Link to issue. You can see people's theory of why it's happening there.
I just use "Top 6 Hours" for now.
So this article is from 2021. Does anyone know what actually happened? I'm assuming the source code was never made public and nothing bad happened to truth social but I'd love to be proven wrong.
They released the source code.
From Wikipedia:
On October 21, 2021, the Software Freedom Conservancy group stated they suspected Truth Social had violated Mastodon's AGPLv3 license by not offering its source code to all users. The Mastodon developers then formally requested that Truth Social comply with the terms of the software license, with Truth Social publishing its source code as a ZIP file on the website on November 12, 2021. On February 22, 2022, the source code download was moved to the website's legal section. A mirror of the source code is available at GitHub, where it was uploaded by uninvolved individuals.
This is hilarious
What does "revoking of license" mean in this context for Truth Social
as far as i understand it, the outcome varies for different licenses but under AGPLv3 the cure provision is that once the 30 days are up, the license is revoked and legally speaking that means Truth social would be not only using but distributing unlicensed software. in that case, Mastodon has full and complete legal grounds to successfully sue them for copyright infringement.
Thank you
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Why am I not surprised.
Been waiting for this since I heard they built it on Mastodon. breaks out popcorn
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