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Eh? You do know that truth social is just going to ban any opposing worldviews right? Hell its even known to use mastodon code illegally. They’re not one of the better ones out there.
Quite the contrary. If Truth Social succeeds, then it will encourage more competition to enter this space. If it fails, then people will be reluctant to enter this space.
I don’t want Truth Social to succeed because I like it. I want TruthSocial to demonstrate that we’re not condemned to use Twitter/Facebook etc for eternity. That it is realistic to challenge them and win.
The only people who know of the Fediverse’s existence are tech enthusiasts. It’s not a mainstream phenomenon and is not really hurting big tech financially. Truth Social is a much larger phenomenon.
Truth Social is growing very fast, driven largely by politics. Mastodon is not growing as fast. I use Mastodon and recommend it to everyone. But I’m also realistic. Most people will not leave Big Tech unless they have a reason. (and people don’t care about privacy enough for that to be the reason)
Its an alternative the same way r/conservative is an alternative to r/thedonald. Except instead of answering to reddit admins they have to worry about their host putting up with their shit, ddosing, and everything else that comes with running your own platform.
Shit like this is still controlled by a group of people dedicated to spreading their bullshit ‘truth’ while silencing any opinions/facts that disagree with their predetermined narrative.
you mean like how commercial social media literally push you to be in constant conflict because it drives user interaction and helps them generate wealth while also destabilizing nations and causing violent conflicts as a “reasonable” consequence?
no thanks, i want to be able to exist without perpetual idiocracy. i’m pretty sure their rhetoric causes brain damage at this point. let them be dumb on their own. and their world slowly crumble as they kill themselves off with antivax, nomask, guns, bleach, etc.
it’s a problem that eventually solves itself when their belief is confronted with actual reality.
I’m amazed that you think that while the whole conversation was about promoting fediverse, you somehow deduced that I want people to be using algorithm based platforms like twitter and Facebook.
if your aim is for the fediverse to be filled with vitriol you might as well not bother and stick to commercial platforms. it would defeat the whole point of federating servers.
The only reason they released the source code is because people dug around the pre-release versions of the site and found it was based on Mastodon, while TS claimed they owned all copyrights to the software. They were in breach of Mastodon’s license.
They would have gotten away with it if this had never came to light.
Better than Zuckerberg deciding what we’re allowed to say.
Eh? You do know that truth social is just going to ban any opposing worldviews right? Hell its even known to use mastodon code illegally. They’re not one of the better ones out there.
Lemmy started out like that as well. It has drastically changed, though. Good on the devs for that. I really mean it.
Reread what I wrote. I don’t expect Truth Social to be anything good. It’s just that having alternatives is better than a single monopoly.
And I’m just saying we need better mainstream alternatives. This is nothing to be celebrated because this just puts a stain on alt-tech
Quite the contrary. If Truth Social succeeds, then it will encourage more competition to enter this space. If it fails, then people will be reluctant to enter this space.
facepalm why would we want such a platform to succeed is what I’m saying. But whatever.
I don’t want Truth Social to succeed because I like it. I want TruthSocial to demonstrate that we’re not condemned to use Twitter/Facebook etc for eternity. That it is realistic to challenge them and win.
Hasn’t the fediverse already proven that?
Mastodon hasn’t had mainstream success and is mainly people used by open source tech enthusiasts and people care about their privacy.
The only people who know of the Fediverse’s existence are tech enthusiasts. It’s not a mainstream phenomenon and is not really hurting big tech financially. Truth Social is a much larger phenomenon.
So why not just work on promoting lemmy and mastodon? Given that Truth social is just a bastardized version of mastodon.
Truth Social is growing very fast, driven largely by politics. Mastodon is not growing as fast. I use Mastodon and recommend it to everyone. But I’m also realistic. Most people will not leave Big Tech unless they have a reason. (and people don’t care about privacy enough for that to be the reason)
Its an alternative the same way r/conservative is an alternative to r/thedonald. Except instead of answering to reddit admins they have to worry about their host putting up with their shit, ddosing, and everything else that comes with running your own platform.
Shit like this is still controlled by a group of people dedicated to spreading their bullshit ‘truth’ while silencing any opinions/facts that disagree with their predetermined narrative.
i really don’t see the issue with that though. isn’t it great that they’re over there, rather than in here?
No, bubbles never work for the better of the society. Constant intellectual challenge on the other hand does.
you mean like how commercial social media literally push you to be in constant conflict because it drives user interaction and helps them generate wealth while also destabilizing nations and causing violent conflicts as a “reasonable” consequence?
no thanks, i want to be able to exist without perpetual idiocracy. i’m pretty sure their rhetoric causes brain damage at this point. let them be dumb on their own. and their world slowly crumble as they kill themselves off with antivax, nomask, guns, bleach, etc.
it’s a problem that eventually solves itself when their belief is confronted with actual reality.
I’m amazed that you think that while the whole conversation was about promoting fediverse, you somehow deduced that I want people to be using algorithm based platforms like twitter and Facebook.
if your aim is for the fediverse to be filled with vitriol you might as well not bother and stick to commercial platforms. it would defeat the whole point of federating servers.
They already ban anyone without a full on trump loving opinion. Its just more weaponization of freeze peach.
Truth Social’s code is open source. It uses elements of Mastodon and Soapbox.
The only reason they released the source code is because people dug around the pre-release versions of the site and found it was based on Mastodon, while TS claimed they owned all copyrights to the software. They were in breach of Mastodon’s license.
They would have gotten away with it if this had never came to light.