Truth Social is modeled heavily after Twitter; users are able to make posts ("Truths", similar to tweets) and share other users' posts ("ReTruths", similar to retweets).[56] The Truth Social platform uses a custom version of the free and open-source social network hosting software Mastodon as its backend, which omits several features, including polls and post visibility options.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course they started with an existing platform to save time and money. When anyone else does it, it’s a smart way to save time and money. When anyone related to captain cheese ball does it, it’s because he’s cheap as shit. I wonder if the devs ever got paid.

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

They literally violated the AGPL license of Mastodon and thought they'd get away with it.
Literally the only reason why we know it's based on Mastodon is because of some smart redditor forcing a page crash exposing the Mastodon error message warranting further investigation.
It wasn't until they got called out and got a formal notification of the breach in terms that it got fixed; because if they didn't with the 30days allotted time they would've been sued.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So they have a public repository now? I'd like to see that

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Repo, no. Although some people have made them.

It’s a zip: https://opensource.truthsocial.com/mastodon-current.zip

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago

Honestly it is hilarious to me that they rather make a zip file then a repo.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 5 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, git as cloud storage, or GaCS for the business people.

Actually, there isn't even a repository stored in the zip because ✨ transparency ✨

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 year ago

Backstory that I hadn't known. Doesn't surprise me one bit. Cheers to whoever proved the theft.

[–] dullbananas@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

AGPL is beautiful https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html#license-text

[–] KIM_JONG@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Lol the posts are called Truths. Someone should start Fake Social where the posts are called Fakes. And you can Refake others Fakes.

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the main reason I remember is they almost got sued over not disclosing it I think

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They actually tried to hide that fact and even removed references to Mastodon in the UI until SF Conversancy threatened to sue them and permanently cut their license to it.