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Making Truth Social Comply with the AGPL
- fnordpiglet 3y agoI’m surprised they need such a sophisticated ads system for serving the MyPillow ad they’re still trying to collect on.
- tick_tock_tick 3y agoWow sounds like they comply better then pretty much any company I wasn't expecting that when I started the article.
- sroussey 3y agoAgreed, though AGPL is quite different than GPL and I’m not aware of many (any?) public companies that have their main code base covered by that license.
- galina700 3y ago[dead]
- angusturner 3y agoGreat write up. The Github mirror is also quite convenient.
- helpmefindpurp 3y ago[dead]
- subsistence234 3y ago[flagged]
- ApolloFortyNine 3y agoTldr, they complied when asked. The write up could have done without a good portion of it just bashing Republicans every other line, it didn't add anything at all to an otherwise fine writeup.
- akira2501 3y ago> that the labor they exploit is frequently performed by liberals, queers, socialists, and other groups they’ve sworn to destroy You know... people with significantly different ideologies also write code.
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- fnordpiglet 3y agoI think the word is “frequently” which isn’t “exclusively” and the subject was “open source,” not code. I don’t think it’s controversial most free software / open source people fall into these categories much to the cryptofascist science denying qanon follower free software nerds dismay.
- akira2501 3y agoI'd even challenge "frequently" to the extent that it rises to an obvious point of "exploitation" when "their" code is used. It claims ownership and a position that is neither relevant the copyright issues presented nor, in my opinion, even true. It's probably not controversial here on Hacker News, but many people live inside this HN valley bubble that's pretty solidly disconnected from the rest of the country and even the world. You've made this particular case here perfectly by attempting to connect identity to open source. Which, I do find annoying, as many people make the same assumptions you do towards me in my work, as if presumptively pushing politics into an engineering conversation is a worthwhile or welcome activity. The mixture of faux shock and bullying in response is, sadly, nothing new to me either. Anyways, you're welcome to openly have as closed of a mind as you like, but I will always find the behavior baffling and worthy of comment.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoOh I agree the license of open source lets anyone use it. No debate at all. But the demographics of the community are not particularly controversial and I’m frankly surprised people disagree at all no matter their social or political view point. The HN valley bubble is absolutely disconnected from the rest of the world, but is absolutely representative of the open source developer community. Representative however does not mean exclusively so. Your experience of presumption of political belief is specifically the “dismay” point I made. I absolutely agree there’s a huge presumption based on the overwhelming political alignment of the community and it absolutely makes science denying cryptofascists uncomfortable. What I find unclear is why this makes me close minded. I’m a card carrying ACLU members and 1000% agree everyone is entitled to be as close minded and cruel as they want and am absolutely in favor of seeing Truth Social exist and watch it suck the money of its investors pockets since in fact their views -are- repugnant to most people. But they’re absolutely free to share them at their own expense.
- ultimoo 3y agoGood on them for complying: https://github.com/boehs/truthsocial/tree/main/source https://github.com/boehs/truthsocial/tree/main/source Looks like a straightforward ruby on rails app. I don't have a legal background so I'm curious what would have happened if they hadn't complied? Fined in a civil case?
- internetter 3y agoYes, the SFC (Software Freedom Conservancy) is a charity that provides legal support for free software developers, and actually backed up mastodon in the last instance of this: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/oct/21/trump-group-agplv3/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/oct/21/trump-group-agplv...
- truthsocial 3y agoThank you for your request (routed through legal, which added a day or so of latency). Main issue is we don't have an automated pipeline to update the published tarball/zipfile from our internal source control system, so it has to be done manually, and no one has that as a specific task. We also review the source for IP/security concerns before releasing. We will probably add a quarterly task to update it, until/unless we start maintaining a public branch and do it automatically.
- birdiesanders 3y agoYou could just, like, turn it all off and go on holiday.
- truthsocial 3y agoWe believe in free speech and giving a voice to the deplatformed, so while we could, we won't.
- colesantiago 3y ago[flagged]
- moomoo11 3y agoIf you don’t like it just ignore it. Just let all of them echo each other lol. I have to do that with X because I joined and I’m bombarded by lunatic shit because it forces me to follow Elon when I sign up. All these social media sites suck.
- bingbangboom 3y ago[flagged]
- bavent 3y agoYou mean solely for the deplatformed, and not necessarily free speech for anyone else? Edit: I was banned for saying Ashley Babbit was committing a crime and that we should not have double standards where she is a martyr but George Floyd can’t be.
- buildbot 3y agoGood! Companies need to be called out for this more. For example, Phase One, a very high end digital camera company, started using Linux in their digital backs. They were completely unaware of the impacts of GPL!!! At first they refused, until I literally just linked them the Vizio case by SFC. I got a source download of the (mostly AMD/Xilinx) software the next day :)
- colesantiago 3y agoThis is a great start with Truth Social, lets also do something with this poor student, who's AGPL software is being still used by Andrew Tate's "The Real World" scam. Can we make them comply with the AGPL as well? See: https://insrt.uk/post/andrew-tate-stealing-software-revolt https://insrt.uk/post/andrew-tate-stealing-software-revolt
- internetter 3y agoThey should email compliance@sfconservancy.org, the non-profit that is currently suing Vizio and previously represented Mastodon in this case.
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- WorkerBee28474 3y ago[flagged]
- bingbangboom 3y ago[flagged]
- bigfatfrock 3y agoDon't worry dude, you're still here.
- subsistence234 3y agothe majority on this site are still relatively sane, as are the mods, but only 1% of users needs to be ideologically deranged to hide ideologically inconvenient comments with [flagged] which is what happened, as predicted by the user.
- bingbangboom 3y ago[flagged]
- zja 3y agoThe post about hacking Gab’s AI prompt that they linked to towards the end of the article was wild: https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/112257849039442072 https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/112257849039442072
- bigfatfrock 3y agoAgreed, I was expecting semi-typical internet bullshit but the personal confirmations were amazing!
- aaron695 3y ago[dead]