Its a fork. So its the codebase which they’ve modified so it’s the technology of mastodon but not actually mastodon. Think of it as a drink that someone has put posion in. The drink itself is harmless and maybe even healthy and nutritious but the poison changes it entirely
Of course they don’t its Trump, if there was even a sliver of a chance that he could get sued he would pass a law banning copyleft liscenses and retroactively applying it to himself
There’s an entire howling void of unspeakable instances nobody will federate with, presumably sieg-heiling, shouting slurs and/or trading CSAM among themselves in the darkness. One more won’t change things.
“We” being individual mastodon admins who each choose if they think the server should be defederated or not? That sounds good.
As for bluesky, what they’re doing makes sense for a global non-federated site. Allow anyone to make an account, and allow them to post as long as they don’t break the rules. If a user doesn’t like that organization they’re free to block or mute them. Anything else and you’re asking bluesky to draw an arbitrary line somewhere. If they forbid ICE from creating an account, which government entities are allowed? FBI? National Weather Service? FDA? POTUS? Supreme Court? Federal Reserve?
I would bet if you say bluesky should ban “problematic” accounts and asked 100 people which accounts should be banned, you’d get 100 completely different answers. Just use your own judgment and your own block button.
They can and should make their own instance. And we can defederate them.
Isn’t Truth Social running Mastodon?
Its a fork. So its the codebase which they’ve modified so it’s the technology of mastodon but not actually mastodon. Think of it as a drink that someone has put posion in. The drink itself is harmless and maybe even healthy and nutritious but the poison changes it entirely
I’ve read somewhere they originally took the Mastodon server codebase, but it’s been heavily modified since and not compatible with ActivityPub.
Isn’t Mastadon AGPL? So legally if that was the case they would have to share sources (if Trump cared about the law)
Yes, and they have “shared” it. After repeat requests, they sent a zip out, and it was posted here:
https://codeberg.org/TruthSocial/truth-social
Certainly out of date by now though.
I doubt they care about the law.
Of course they don’t its Trump, if there was even a sliver of a chance that he could get sued he would pass a law banning copyleft liscenses and retroactively applying it to himself
Yes, but without federation
Yes, that was my point
There’s an entire howling void of unspeakable instances nobody will federate with, presumably sieg-heiling, shouting slurs and/or trading CSAM among themselves in the darkness. One more won’t change things.
“We” being individual mastodon admins who each choose if they think the server should be defederated or not? That sounds good.
As for bluesky, what they’re doing makes sense for a global non-federated site. Allow anyone to make an account, and allow them to post as long as they don’t break the rules. If a user doesn’t like that organization they’re free to block or mute them. Anything else and you’re asking bluesky to draw an arbitrary line somewhere. If they forbid ICE from creating an account, which government entities are allowed? FBI? National Weather Service? FDA? POTUS? Supreme Court? Federal Reserve?
I would bet if you say bluesky should ban “problematic” accounts and asked 100 people which accounts should be banned, you’d get 100 completely different answers. Just use your own judgment and your own block button.