World News Headlines December 3, 2021 Under One Ceiling 0 Trump’s social media site quietly admits it’s based on Mastodon 0 0000 0 0 more Trump’s social media site quietly admits it’s based on Mastodon December 3, 2021 Under One Ceiling now playing Transferring money from UAE abroad: what are my cheapest options December 3, 2021 Under One Ceiling WIN With Nespresso This Mother’s Day December 3, 2021 Under One Ceiling NBA Playoffs 2022: A Casual Fan's Guide to the Postseason December 3, 2021 Under One Ceiling Best New Climbing Gear of 2022 December 3, 2021 Under One Ceiling A Local Weekend Travel Guide to Austin, Texas December 3, 2021 Under One Ceiling First Drive: 2022 Range Rover Ups the Luxury SUV Experience December 3, 2021 Under One Ceiling Most Stylish Rain Jackets, Parkas, and Trench Coats for Men December 3, 2021 Under One Ceiling EU eyes Russian oil import ban as Moscow strikes western Ukraine December 3, 2021 Under One Ceiling World-class Clark Int’l Airport opens new 110,000 square-meter passenger terminal December 3, 2021 Under One Ceiling PCG: Bodies of 5 children who drowned in Taal Lake found December 3, 2021 Under One Ceiling Trump’s social media site quietly admits it’s based on Mastodon To avoid a lawsuit, Donald Trump’s social media site is quietly acknowledging the computer code powering the platform comes from Mastodon. Trump’s “Truth Social” site now features a dedicated section labeled “open source,” which contains a Zip archive to Mastodon’s source code. “Our goal is to support the open source community no matter what your political beliefs are. That’s why the first place we go to find amazing software is the community and not ‘Big Tech,’” the site adds. Truth Social created the section on Nov. 12, two weeks after social networking provider Mastodon threatened to sue Trump’s platform for violating its open-source license. Although Truth Social has yet to launch, an early test build went live in October, and users immediately noticed it adopted several design elements from Mastodon’s software. But at the time, Truth Social made no attempt to credit Mastodon or publish the computer code behind it. Since Mastodon is an open-source software project, anyone can use it for free. But if you do, the software license demands the code and any ensuing modifications to your Mastodon-powered platform be made publicly available, allowing the entire Mastodon community to benefit. (This doesn’t include publishing any user data or disclosing admin access, though.) “We release our work for free in the first place is the idea that, as we give to the platform operators, so do the platform operators give back to us by providing their improvements for us and everyone to see,” Mastodon wrote in a blog post last month. However, Trump’s social media site had claimed all of its source code was “proprietary,” and controlled solely by Truth Social. In response, Mastodon sent a letter to Trump’s social media platform, demanding its source code be published within 30 days or face legal action involving copyright infringement. Mastodon Founder Eugen Rochko now tells PCMag he’s holding off on filing any lawsuit. “We haven’t received any communication back from them, but they’ve uploaded a ZIP archive of the source code, which for now seems to bring them in compliance,” Rochko said in an email. However, it appears the uploaded Zip archive is simply a barebones version of the existing Mastodon source code you can already find on GitHub. The archive itself is only a mere 30MB in size. Nevertheless, Rochko said the Zip archive might “become more interesting” once Truth Social finally launches. Expect Trump’s social media platform to formally arrive in next year’s first quarter. A beta launch for the site was also supposed to take place in November, but it appears Truth Social has missed the original target date. Related Related posts: Biden and China’s Xi met Monday in a virtual summit. Here’s where the relationship stands. Italy accuses Egyptian security of Giulio Regeni’s murder Russia’s war on social media isn’t going well, either Christian Eriksen recalled to Denmark squad for first time since cardiac arrest tags: RSS Feed World News 0000 0 0 previous How to delete individual photos from a carousel on Instagram next Canada joins U.S, EU and Britain in imposing new Belarus sanctions
