From slate.com Everything That Went Wrong With Donald Trump’s New Social Network in the First 24 Hours > Truth Social will be a lot like Twitter, with the pri

From slate.com Everything That Went Wrong With Donald Trump’s New Social Network in the First 24 Hours > Truth Social will be a lot like Twitter, with the primary interface consisting of a feed of short posts from users you follow. However, these posts will be called “truths” instead of “tweets,” and reshares will be known a “retruths.” While the platform wasn’t supposed to have its soft launch until next month, users found a way to access the site and were setting up accounts within hours of the announcement. (One vandal claimed the @donaldjtrump handle and posted a picture of a pig with extremely large testicles.) Truth Social eventually cut off access, though screenshots of the interface taken before then suggest that the platform is basically just a fork of Mastodon, the open-access software that allows users to make spinoff social media networks. Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko has said that he will be seeking legal counsel since Truth Social appears to be breaking his product’s terms of use by not sharing the code or license with the public. Truth Social’s terms further claim that the source code is proprietary, which could also violate Mastodon’s license. https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/donald-trump-true-social-launch-problems.html https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/donald-trump-true-socia...