Wait, what??
"Truth Social runs on Mastodon, the decentralized social-media network that many Twitter users are now treating as a life raft. If Trump stays on Truth Social, and onetime Twitter aficionados flee to Mastodon, what could that signal about the growth of smaller, less-centralized networks as a possible future for social media?" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-s-terrifically-stupid-return-to-twitter/ar-AA14kJEw
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@hollyjahangiri Mastodon is open source, so the TS probably running a lot of the same code as Mastodon with some changes (a so-called "fork")
@nikolai3d @hollyjahangiri it was a big story back when Truth was getting ready to launch, they had used Mastodon code and were trying to pass it off as their own.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/trumps-social-media-site-quietly-admits-its-based-on-mastodon