Mastodon's Founder Says Trump's New Social Network Is Just Mastodon
www.vice.com'Truth Social', which will launch officially later in the year, is seemingly using Mastodon's codebase without credit.
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This seems to be a very unpopular opinion here, but I think its good if Trump opens a Mastodon instance (assuming that it follows the license). Having different instances for different political views is one of the main features of the fediverse for me. And anyone who doesnt like an instance can simply block and ignore it. If that instance works, it would show to many people that an alternative to corporate social media is actually possible.
this can be good for the fediverse 2-5 milion userse maybe.
Yes, a couple of million disinformation zombies would be fantastic.
Does this really need explaining? You think a million disinformation zombies would be a good thing?
I guess you weren’t aware that Gab is a fork of Mastodon and was originally part of the fediverse until they were essentially locked out due to their crap?
You must be American, if you believe that conservatism vs liberalism is the same thing as hateful racist trolling dickhead vs. people who don’t want that in their lives.
The rest of the world (mostly) doesn’t live by this constant “red vs. blue” anger fest.
2 - Thanks for the clarification, I stand corrected!
One doesn’t need millions of users to have a healthy community, and if communities are built around being divisive hate machines, there’s no need to welcome them, they can stand alone as their own ignorant islands. You can’t force integration between sane society and the intolerant. The hateful intolerant have to be moderated and told to go piss up a tree.
Gab only turned off federation after it was clear they weren’t welcome anywhere.
I don’t disagree that growth of the fediverse would be a good thing, but not in an unmoderated fashion. The example growth you give is a great example of the wrong way to get growth - nobody’s trying to re-create Twitter. The style? Sure. The content? Nope.
Nah, having that many far right “freeze peach” people will be an extremely bad look for us and likely ruin the ecosystem for any moderates or leftists.
Who says this will be a “bad look”, some leftist muricans? The world doesnt revolve around them, and if they dont like it, they can block any instance that they dislike. Thats the whole point of federation. The fediverse doesnt belong to any specific group, it legally belongs to everyone (AGPL).