Sobering Truth behind New TruthSocial.com
Donald Trump’s loudly announced social network TruthSocial.com is reportedly just another offshoot of the open-source software Mastodon, Vice.com (October 21) writes. Mastodon is a decentralised …More
Donald Trump’s loudly announced social network TruthSocial.com is reportedly just another offshoot of the open-source software Mastodon, Vice.com (October 21) writes.
Mastodon is a decentralised service. Everyone can put the software on a server, add preferences and designs, and connect his server to the others. Currently there are about 3.000 Mastodon servers ("instances"). One of them is “Gab.com.”
Mastodon is not a full functioning social network. It is possible to add minor features and gimmicks but the core of the software can hardly be improved as it runs on many different foreign servers. Software engineers consider Mastodon sluggish and unmaintainable.
Trump claimed that “all source code” is proprietary, however, Mastodon’s founder Eugen Rochko recognised his product after first screenshots were made public. If this is true, Trump is violating Mastodon’s licence that demands publishing of all changes made to the software.
Building a social network is more complex than Trump may …More
Mastodon is a decentralised service. Everyone can put the software on a server, add preferences and designs, and connect his server to the others. Currently there are about 3.000 Mastodon servers ("instances"). One of them is “Gab.com.”
Mastodon is not a full functioning social network. It is possible to add minor features and gimmicks but the core of the software can hardly be improved as it runs on many different foreign servers. Software engineers consider Mastodon sluggish and unmaintainable.
Trump claimed that “all source code” is proprietary, however, Mastodon’s founder Eugen Rochko recognised his product after first screenshots were made public. If this is true, Trump is violating Mastodon’s licence that demands publishing of all changes made to the software.
Building a social network is more complex than Trump may …More
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(anti-)Social networks ... (and I have called then since they started) will gather private data regardless of who runs them. The nature of their functions demand this. Yes PRIVATE data.
Now that all these people gave away their priceless privacy for a computer program... taking the freedom is easy since they know so very much about how the users will respond to each and every stimuli (situation).…More
(anti-)Social networks ... (and I have called then since they started) will gather private data regardless of who runs them. The nature of their functions demand this. Yes PRIVATE data.
Now that all these people gave away their priceless privacy for a computer program... taking the freedom is easy since they know so very much about how the users will respond to each and every stimuli (situation). It is modelled and better than 70% likely they can cause what is desired... with this computer program...
Now that we know this from near history, it does seem a terrible choice to jump from one marionette to another... imo
Now that all these people gave away their priceless privacy for a computer program... taking the freedom is easy since they know so very much about how the users will respond to each and every stimuli (situation). It is modelled and better than 70% likely they can cause what is desired... with this computer program...
Now that we know this from near history, it does seem a terrible choice to jump from one marionette to another... imo