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

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Truth Social is built with Mastodon fun fact lmao

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep, and I'm pretty sure they almost got sued over not disclosing it too

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If it's based in Mastodon then it's he wrong to say it's the exact opposite of Mastodon, no?

That's like saying a Lemmy app is the opposite of another Lemmy app, if one app defaulted to Lemmygrad and the other to Exploding Heads.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

They meant in other contexts. As in, the latter is a decent platform full of ways to find educated, diverse commentary. The former is an echo chamber filled with rancid, hate-filled bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Well, more of the antithesis since the kind/stance of the content

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But there’s a difference between branding and backend implementation.

If I search for Lemmy.world and I get back hexbear, are you going to say that’s the right result since they are both Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's essentially forked mastodon. There's no federation with it. It's just using the core functionality. Plus Mastodon's development had a goal and vision. TruthSocial is somewhat antithetical to it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yup, they didn't comply with the license Mastodon uses (Affero General Public License) by not publishing the source code and making it accessible via something like a button and they got a legal notice to either add one or get sued