It makes me sick that Trump's truth.social social media platform is based on a fork of Mastodon.

It makes me sick that Trump's truth.social social media platform is based on a fork of Mastodon. #mastodon #fediverse #activitypub.

@eyeinthesky

For better or worse, he is also probably the most successful example of a politician embracing and using decentralized social-media.

@reiver @eyeinthesky

Isn't the key technical difference between #TruthSocial & regular #Mastodon that TS removed the decentralization?

@klu9 @eyeinthesky

TS removed the Federation — not the Decentralized.

@reiver @eyeinthesky

I'm afraid I'm not knowledgeable enough to understand the difference

@klu9 @eyeinthesky

Having multiple servers connect to each other is Federation.

Having multiple independent servers (regardless of whether they connect to each other or not) is Decentralization.

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TS is an independent server — thus, it with others form Decentralized social-media.

TS does not connect to other servers — thus, not Federated.