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@stux@mstdn.social# Mastodon's Founder Says Trump's New Social Network Is Just Mastodon
> 'Truth Social', which will launch officially later in the year, is seemingly using Mastodon's codebase without credit.
Former President Donald Trump’s new social network ’Truth Social’ is seemingly a thinly disguised fork of popular social network codebase Mastodon.
> 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.
#Mastodon #TruthSocial #Trump #thief
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgm5k/truth-social-is-mastodon-trump
@stux how will this billionaire pay for this?
@JonathanMBR 
"billionaire"
@stux, last month I looked deeply at the source code, comparing it with Mastodon, and Truth had very minor changes, mostly inconsequential text changes (such as "Toot" to "Truth").
They did add a small amount of extra weekly activity reporting for admins.
They also added the ability to "unverify" an account (I think that was the term).
Finally, the published Truth source code was a version behind Mastodon, so various fixes and a few security issues had not been applied. Look for yourself. Truth was version 3.4.1, so the "Fix user notes not having a length limit" wasn't in Truth code base.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
I completely agree with Mastodon's founder after proving out that the changes aren't enough to consider it something new. Truth Social "is just Mastodon".
@stux Why do radicals always have to use *incredibly deep* names for their products?
wizard @stux none of this surprises me. the orange cheeto is a bandito many times over.