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Would be entertaining to watch it unfold. I'm sure team 45 would try to horn in if it happened. Might bring a massive influx of users. Mixed feelings. But a good writeup.
Truth Social is already literally a Mastodon instance. They just don't federate with anything else.
Trump could open up federation, but that would ruin their safe space, I mean echo chamber.
They would also be instantly defederated by like 90% of the fediverse
And 9% of the rest would just be griefing them
Gab is in kind of the same place, with the same conclusion.
"Oh no, keeping a walled garden actually increases the value of my echo chamber! Better not open anything up to dissenting views!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social#Platform
Truth Social is such a freaking dumpster fire. It would be the absolute worst candidate to be used by governments. Some politicians? Sure. Actual departments? Ehhhh
I know, I just always think it's humorous that its technically a fediverse project, although it seems it doesn't do federation (that I know of, and thank god for that).
Ironic considering the user base, not that there's any shortage of irony on "truth" social.
Literally just saw this in my feed: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-sues-truth-social-co-founders-says-not-entitled-stock-shares-rcna146106
The server does not have to be open for registration.
Sure, but I'm thinking they'd make some noise on their own, and/or infiltrate other instances en masse (potentially).
Ah, I didn't realize what you meant by Team 45.