It almost completely resembles a Twitter clone: a user can post truths, which are like tweets, or reverdades, which are retweets. There’s also a news feed, called Truth Feed, a notification formula that users should know “who you are interacting with your TRUTH,” the social network’s App Store profile says.
The site’s code shows that it runs an unmodified edition of Mastodon, the free open-source software introduced in 2016 that can be used to run a homemade social networking site.
Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko told the Post on Thursday that Trump could simply violate Mastodon’s licensing rules, which require developers to focus all tweaks and link to the original source code. Rochko said he reached out to the company’s legal suggestion to make a decision.
Using a link to what gave the impression of being some other verification site that wasn’t deleted, I was able to create a profile seamlessly. Given its excessive similarity to Twitter (albeit with a strangely boring color scheme), it’s not hard to navigate. But when you post articles, you don’t tap “Tweet,” but instead press a button that says “TRUTH!”
Every message from each and every user is a “truth,” not because of the substance of what someone says, but because of the distinctive feature of where they say it.
In addition to the taste-bad design, it was easy to feel the next step in Trump’s plan to destroy the concept of shared truth. Every post from each and every user is a “fact,” not because of the substance of what someone says, still because of where they say it: Trump’s social media space. This precept is the key to Trump’s authoritarian paradigm, in which fact does not resemble truth or reason, but the will to force and tribalism, everything is true because my tribe and I need it to be true.
The site’s technical issues and uninspired design might not deter new users, as Trump seeks to conquer the market through the creation of an exclusive multimedia experience, but seeks to create an ideological space for singles. cancellable global community”, which means that it is a social media platform populated only by other right-wing people and establishes little or no regulation related to abuse, disinformation, calls for violence and intolerance.
The crux of the matter, however, is to create a forum where Trump has carte blanche to speak the way he needs and be adored for it. “We in a world where the Taliban have a strong presence on Twitter, but their favorite American president has been silenced,” he wrote in his announcement. This is unacceptable. “
Trump’s new media business meets all of Trump’s classic requirements: money, power, ego. If successful, it can be an advantage in keeping your forward-looking aspirations for 2024 alive. open question.
Zeeshan Aleem is editor of MSNBC Daily. Previously, he worked for Vox, HuffPost and Politico, and was also published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation and elsewhere.
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