Why worry about traffic? Traffic is a cost you impose on the website, it uses power and bandwidth. You’re not giving anything to them by causing traffic.
Just make sure you block ads and tracking, that way you don’t give them anything.
Because traffic stats are what they use to negotiate with advertisers. The more unique page hits you have the more the ads will be seen.
There is https://trumpstruth.org/, it has a RSS feed. One could make a bot on the fediverse to repost from the feed.
“Worst bot ever.”
(In the voice of comic shop guy.)
(I’m not complaining. You gave the best answer here to the question asked!)
IIRC truth social is a Mastodon instance, so you could make your own (because every mastodon instance have defederated it) and follow him there
It may be based on stolen mastodon code but truth social has never been federated. It’s always been an isolated instance
They released their code a while ago, so they technically fullfilled the AGPL licence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social#Software
Although they of course half-arse it and don’t seem to really keep the releases up to date
Although they of course half-arse it and don’t seem to really keep the releases up to date
Then they’re not technically fulfilling the licence.
Only if they made changes since then, I think
No need to stole it. They just blocked federation from the get go.
I’m pretty sure mastodon has a copyleft licence meaning that it can be used for commercial use but the updated software also needs to maintain the same licence. That’s why I chose the word “stole”. They’re not honouring the licence so it’s stolen.
But they have to uphold the license if they publish the code. But if they don’t publish the code and use it only internally they don’t have to.
I don’t think that’s how the license works. You’re thinking of the general GNU licenses, not the Affero one which Mastodon uses.
To quote the license (from Mastodon’s repo):
The GNU General Public License permits making a modified version and letting the public access it on a server without ever releasing its source code to the public.
The GNU Affero General Public License is designed specifically to ensure that, in such cases, the modified source code becomes available to the community. It requires the operator of a network server to provide the source code of the modified version running there to the users of that server.
That sounds to me like at least Truthsocial users need to be able to access its source code.
Also, from the actual terms:
- Conveying Non-Source Forms.
You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License
Mastodon is licensed under AGPLv3, where network use is distribution. The AGPL was explicitly designed to enforce mandatory code sharing for “web services” or “SaaS” scenarios.
I think I saw someone a while ago who said truth social is technically a mastodon instance? I guess it depends if anywhere’s federated though.
I’m pretty sure they have federation disabled entirely.
Oh. Of course they would. Federation respects freedom and privacy!
