WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The social media of former US President Donald Trump, Truth Social, was found using the source code developed by the social media platform Mastodon, and the license for the software might be revoked, the developer's...

Truth will have to provide its source code to use Mastodon.

Donald Trump’s recent venture into special purpose acquisition companies may have fallen afoul of securities laws, according to the New York Times.

The former president’s social media service is already off to a rocky, shady start.

The new platform, which Trump has touted as a way to "stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech," is expected to launch next month.

The deal that created Donald Trump's new social media company may have "skirted" federal law by neglecting to tell investors the recipient of its investment is the disgraced former president and by having a merger planned before its initial public offering."Mr. Trump — largely shut out of the mainst...

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In right-wing media, former President Donald Trump's Truth Social has been hyped as the conservative social media platform that would be a counterbalance to the "liberal bias" of Twitter and Facebook (neither of which, truth be told, have a bias for anything other than turning huge profits). But San...

Mastodon said it sent a formal letter to 'Truth Social' after media reports found the site was using Mastodon's codebase while not respecting a part of its software license.

TRUTH Social might not even launch.

The former president began discussing a deal with a ‘blank check’ company early this year. Investors weren’t told.

Mastodon's lawyers sent a letter warning the company that it had 30 days to comply with the license agreement.

Mastodon, which is a free, open-source alternative to social media platforms, has sent a notice to Trump Media and Technology Group to comply with licensing norms

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In the bleak face of Twitter’s continued centralization, Tapbots refuses to give up on its mobile client.Were it just I who came to you with only my voice on this cold night, proclaiming the immine…

A customisable, fully accessible Mastodon client for iPhone.

A fresh new release of the federated social network software is here, and while the primary focus of it has been on fixing bugs and improving performance, it brings a couple of notable new features to the board. Delete & Redraft There are legitimate reasons why social media platforms rarely, if ever, have an editing function. In an environment where content spreads like wildfire in a matter of minutes, you could easily conceive of nefarious misuses such as creating a post about something agreeable and positive, and, once it reaches critical mass, changing the content to something malicious.

About 6 months have passed since April, during which the major mainstream breakthrough of our decentralized social network took place. From 20,000 users to almost a million! What better time to run through a couple examples of what’s been introduced since then? Mastodon is defined by its focus on good user experience, polished design and superior anti-abuse tools. In that vein, the web app has received numerous updates. Using the latest browser features, the web app receives real push notifications, making it almost indistinguishable from a native mobile app.

It takes certain credentials to become a verified human in this world -- unless you're on Mastodon, that is.

I have been using the open source Twitter competitor for almost a year, and I love it.

The personal website and blog of Daniel Long Sockwell, a lawyer-turned-programmer with an interest in web development, open source, and making things as simple as possible.

While platforms like Facebook have empowered users around the world to publish and browse the web and convene with friends online without any technical knowledge, they've also amassed unprecedented gatekeeping powers when it comes to the news and information sources people come across online. (I…

Opinion: Facebook and Google's growing power has spurred calls to decentralize the web.

Setting out upon a desperate personal journey to rediscover enchantment with computers.

Mastodon is figuring out how to address Gab joining its platform

I quit Twitter to join a kinder, nicer, decentralized open source version of Twitter.

Mastodon is an experiment in whether individually moderated communities can make a social network like Twitter more civil.