Trump may have ‘skirted’ federal law in setting up his $300 million social media company deal: NYT
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...
Why Trump’s social media platform may be doomed from the start: attorney
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 Lawyers Tell Trump Social Network to Make Source Code Public
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.
Donald Trump's Social Media Platform A Mastodon Rip-off ?
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
https://thenewsmanual.net/Resources/glossary.htmlThere are a few entities which continue to validate what I'm pursuing, but Joshua Topolsky http://twitter.com/joshuatopolsky and his *Outline http...
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 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.