I thought advertisements were supposed to be enticing...

I forgot Mastodon was on F-Droid, shoulda checked there first

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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.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  So they have a public repository now? I'd like to see that
  
  Repo, no. Although some people have made them.
  It’s a zip: https://opensource.truthsocial.com/mastodon-current.zip
  
  Honestly it is hilarious to me that they rather make a zip file then a repo.
  
  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 ✨
  
  Backstory that I hadn't known. Doesn't surprise me one bit. Cheers to whoever proved the theft.
  
  AGPL is beautiful https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html#license-text
- Lol the posts are called Truths. Someone should start Fake Social where the posts are called Fakes. And you can Refake others Fakes.
- 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.
- Yeah, the main reason I remember is they almost got sued over not disclosing it I think

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