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submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] fiat_lux@kbin.social 73 points 11 months ago

Alex Gleason, for anyone wondering he's said he's going to work full time on...

open-source technology for “decentralized” social media platforms that operate on independently-run servers and provide an alternative to Twitter and Facebook. ... developing technology for connecting multiple decentralized platforms

Reinventing the fediverse? Watch out for that, I guess.

[-] Wodge@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago

Wasn't Truth Social just a mastodon instance to begin with?

[-] fiat_lux@kbin.social 34 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Kichae@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

I wouldn't be shocked if someone told me the front end was stolen, too.

[-] unconsciousvoidling@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago

Well it wasn’t a good scam. It’s not like Donald trump paid him a single dime for ripping off mastodon.

[-] slorcher@lemmy.ml 35 points 11 months ago
[-] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago
[-] fiat_lux@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

It's catchy, I'll give you that.

[-] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 32 points 11 months ago

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

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] fiat_lux@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

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.

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