Excluded from Twitter, Facebook and most social networks, Donald Trump decided to launch his own platform: Truth Social (“Social Truth”). expected In beta from November 2021The social network promises to offer free expression to the billionaire’s supporters.
According to the statement published online on the App Store in the United States, Truth “Promotes open, free and honest global conversation without discrimination of political ideology.”. The social network will havea news feed, user profiles and a search bar. The interface is a little (very) reminiscent of Twitter.
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“Uncle Jim from Atlanta is a proud libertarian. Aunt Kellie from Texas is a staunch conservative. Your cousin John from California is a staunch liberal. And guess what? “They all have an incredible time together and share their views on the world.”explains the statement.
Unfortunately for Donald Trump, Truth’s source code oddly close to Mastodon’sOpen source alternative social network that promises to protect the privacy of its members. According to Mastodon founder and lead developer Eugen Rochko, Trump’s social network is based on his own code.
“From the screenshots I’ve seen, it’s definitely based on Mastodon”, assures Eugen Rochko. Truth Social also uses the same error message for its Mastodon mascot, the elephant. Various elements of the interface are also very similar to each other. Finally, we see Mastodon mentioned a few times. Real Social HTML code.
But Truth’s website is quick to say: “all source code” is the owner. This is obviously a false statement, license violation. “Mastodon is free software released under the AGPLv3 license, so anyone can use it as long as they comply with the license. The main part of the license is to make the source code and modifications to it publicly available.”explains Eugen Rochko.
Source : Deputy
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