The head of engineering for the company that operates former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Truth Social app told Reuters on Monday he had resigned, in a blow for the venture.
The head of engineering for the company that operates former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Truth Social app told Reuters on Monday he had resigned, in a blow for the venture.
Alex Gleason, for anyone wondering he’s said he’s going to work full time on…
Reinventing the fediverse? Watch out for that, I guess.
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Apparently the backend still is, just a customised version to exclude poll and post visibility option functionality. I assume there are other changes too, because he and his team swapped the frontend out for their own and made a Web app version. Not much to show for 16 months since launch, really. Embarrassing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social#Software is a fun read
I wouldn’t be shocked if someone told me the front end was stolen, too.
Well it wasn’t a good scam. It’s not like Donald trump paid him a single dime for ripping off mastodon.
Confediverse
Covfefeverse
It’s catchy, I’ll give you that.
Reinventing the wheel but worse is what the right-wing’s always been good at.
If you won’t accept them in your club, they’ll make their own with Whitejack and Alpha-malesᵗᵐ
Gleason used to contribute to pleroma before the split.
They prob just wanted a tailor made soapbox.fe and once it was done didn’t have any more work.
Good to know, I thought there might be something weird about software with a name heavily embedded in Christian theology, so I should have seen that coming.