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.
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.
Confediverse
Covfefeverse
Wasn’t Truth Social just a mastodon instance to begin with?
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
Well it wasn’t a good scam. It’s not like Donald trump paid him a single dime for ripping off mastodon.
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.
I didn’t realize that that thing still existed. By now, isn’t it just Trump spending a whole hell of a lot of money to talk to himself?
I’d be curious to know how many of his “followers” are actually just bots and accounts made up by his staff so Trump thinks people actually follow him.
Seriously, does anybody of note (or at all, for that matter) actually use that app? I’ve never seen a non-Trump post. (I refuse to call it a “truth” because truth is something that has never once come out of his mouth.)
Another comment highlighted the disparity between his “5.x million” followers and 600k or so actual monthly users. And how many of those are bots too you know?
I’d also be willing to bet that at least some of his “live” followers are merely journalists who only have an account so they can follow him as part of their job, along with probably all of his employees who are likely required to follow his account as a condition of employment.
Elon will welcome him back with tears in his eyes
Didnt he basically already do that, but the trumpsterfire declined?
Truth Social has an estimated 607,000 monthly users, according to data from Similarweb.
Trump had 5.71 million followers on Truth Social
lmao look at all those bots
How many of those 607,000 are also bots?
All of them
Most people don’t like right wing anything. Not really a surprise.
they’re working on nostr now
