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You Have Power: Making Truth Social Comply With The AGPL (boehs.org)

submitted 6 months ago by Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Defending Mastodon from Donald Trump's social media

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 25 points 6 months ago (4 children)

the tl;dr is: he asked nicely for the source code and they gave it to him?

It's a shame they don't embrace federation and open source more, the drama it would create would be fun at least.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 6 months ago

They’re trying to build their own segregated social media community. I think federation is literally the last thing they want to do.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 14 points 6 months ago

If you want drama, then federate with Threads 🤷

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 months ago

nah, there are plenty of truth wannabes (freeze peach bigotry safe havens) that actively federate. just look at literally any competent server's blocked instances list and you'll see a few examples. there's a reason why nobody* runs completely open federation

*: aside from people who're friendly with that crowd ofc

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

There are good reasons not to federate, Legality is kinda murkey when it comes to stuff like this. Federation could (not saying it would) be used as a weapon against them. I mean, there are all sorts of instances on the federated networks, many of which do not comply with US law. Not just the real shitty stuff, But even instances that just don't care about DMCA for instance. It could simply be that Federation is just way too much of a hassle, which I really couldn't blame them. I did try to host my own federated service instance and it was just kinda too much.