@wonka they plan to have ads to turn a profit / be sustainable… so not surprising to see the direction they’re taking

@_elena
Another one? Wasn't it eyou?

@_elena Just finished reading your article and wow lots of interesting points to digest.

I went to the website the other day it definitely looks a ton more polished than back in January when it was first announced.

As usual I signed up for beta access because I like seeing new social platforms but this one has age verification and that's a deal breaker for me right there.

Great post Elena and excellent information in the article.

@the_infamous thank you! I have a part 2 coming soon-ish, which has more interesting elements

@_elena Awesome looking forward to it

@ikuturso @_elena in exploring the relationship between #WSocial, #Bluesky and the AT protocol it's perhaps worth noting that Trumps Nazi Bar/megaphone Truth Social is actually based on a modified Mastodon platform.
I don't think they go to any length to acknowledge that either.

@marjolica @ikuturso not exactly based on... they stole / borrowed the code base and never federated

@_elena @marjolica just the nature of free software that anyone can use it for any purpose. There's a North Korean Linux distro but that's not because Linus Torvalds or any of the contributors support North Korea.

Nobody has to federate with them and in fact they decided they don't want to federate with anyone anyway.

IIRC Truth Social was in breach of the license terms at first but later started releasing their changes to the source code too.

@ikuturso @_elena @marjolica

somehow I wish they have federated, so to have the possibility to slap them with a defederation