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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I forgot Mastodon was on F-Droid, shoulda checked there first

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Truth is actually based on Mastodon

Truth Social is modeled heavily after Twitter; users are able to make posts ("Truths", similar to tweets) and share other users' posts ("ReTruths", similar to retweets).[56] The Truth Social platform uses a custom version of the free and open-source social network hosting software Mastodon as its backend, which omits several features, including polls and post visibility options.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Repo, no. Although some people have made them.

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years 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 ✨

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Lol the posts are called Truths. Someone should start Fake Social where the posts are called Fakes. And you can Refake others Fakes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They actually tried to hide that fact and even removed references to Mastodon in the UI until SF Conversancy threatened to sue them and permanently cut their license to it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the main reason I remember is they almost got sued over not disclosing it I think