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Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based on Mastodon

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31 pointsdrewrem1117 comments

Ahhh yes, 300M USD for a company with two employees and without any working product. An investment for the future!

Soooo, basically a standard SV SaaS company?

Most of them aren’t forking mastodon with a big name as a supporter as its only value.

But many would if they could ;)

And are regretting that they didn’t, and are considering something analogous

The sad part is that this company will likely make more money than the average saas startup.

The site:

Mastodon:

Source:

License:

Disclosure and same license are required.

At least it's got interoperability built in, then.

I noticed the zip file a couple weeks ago (well someone else did and I posted about it to the parlerwatch subreddit):

I would have been happy to have tipped off a reporter at the time, but they don't really seem interested in covering this kind of stuff.

There's a repo with a diff against mainline Masto:

there's more over at /r/Opensource:

Now if this isn't going to be a huge disservice to the cause of Mastodon (which I support, as you might guess).

It hasn't even launched yet? Why is this even a thing?

And? This isn't news though, we all know.

The news is they’ve admitted it after previously hiding it in violation of Mastodon’s licence while their marketing copy professed to be original.

And they complied? It would be more worse if they didn't comply or respond at all.

What's the issue?

There isn’t an issue and I don’t know why you’re looking for one. This news resolved the issue that existed.

They are easier and easier to spot aren't they?