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If anyone wants to start a deprograming crew to infiltrate truth social give me a shout. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Have you ever seen a Truthsocial post in the wild that wasn't from Trump? The company has been financially cratering because nobody uses it. They generated less than $1m of revenue in Q1 2026 with $406m in expenses: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/09/trump-media-and-technology-group-loses-406m-first-quarter-2026

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ok but ive seen it installed on a trumpers phone. Not that they are using it but they are the ones who would...

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They're mainly socially posting on twitter where you'd also have friendly faces in the comments backing up your posts. Truthsocial membership is a badge like a red hat is, but you're mainlining your data to Trump for a platform that only really exists as his backup twitter account. The organic activity outside of that is so low that you're investing a lot of effort for lower engagement than most fediverse instances. With the website being so financially unstable I'd be surprised if it even lasts the duration of the administration. Even at the start of the 2-3 Week War it was announced under advertisements for casinos and dick pills, real bottom of the barrel options for monetisation.

You'd probably get more value for your time if you do that on twitter or a big tent fediverse instance like Lemmy.ml. The purpose of a system is what it does and Truthsocial's purpose is to let Trump tweet 100+ times in a night without a character limit. That system doesn't have organic engagement to radicalise people through.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Its a number game im talking about 3-5 people just picking one trump supporter off at a time. There doesnt need to be complete saturation, if anything it might be easier given this additional information.

As for twitter.. im never going back there.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

as long as you have a good plan. i don't think the people there can be deprogrammed at all.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Ehh, im guessing cult deprogramming is possible. I am certainly not an expert but maga its not unique in methodology only maybe; scale and technology.

I think right now is a pretty opportune time. Economic down swing and mask off policy makes it much easier. I would guess.

[–] pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

You may be interested in the resources at https://leavingmaga.org/

[–] NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You should use bots. They are using bots after all, and a handful of humans will never beat 10 000 bots in an information war.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Eh. Im looking more boots on the ground underground type thing. You can lead the hacker illegal bot net deal.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm down. I have ni ideas yet of how it can be done though.

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maybe try giving them a shrubbery?

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 4 points 4 days ago

A (red) HERRING!

[–] commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

Neo-conservative trotskyist speech bubble