Mastodon founder says Trump's TRUTH Social seems to be using a Mastodon fork, based on a screenshot of an error message featuring Mastodon's elephant mascot
@Fahrenthold But wait, there's more. Trump's social network shut down the other test site, but smart people on the Internet ran a search of its favicon and found another test domain, which I was just able to create a fake account for. This security is ... not great! https://www.w…
The founder of Mastodon said it appears Truth Social is “absolutely is based on” his open-source social networking platform. https://www.newsweek.com/...
LMAOOO. trump's twitter clone is dead in the water. it used mastodon without making the site's code open-source, which is a violation of the license. mastodon's creator is calling lawyers. even if it won't get expensive for trump, this should remove “truth social” from appstores.…
More news: The founder of Mastodon, the open-source software Trump's site is built on, says it may be in violation of rules. He's contacted legal counsel. They couldn't take the site down, but “avenues to take action still exist through legal proceedings” https://www.washingtonpo…