I forgot Mastodon was on F-Droid, shoulda checked there first

  • XusonthaOP
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    2110 months ago

    Yep, and I’m pretty sure they almost got sued over not disclosing it too

    • Zagorath
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      810 months ago

      If it’s based in Mastodon then it’s he wrong to say it’s the exact opposite of Mastodon, no?

      That’s like saying a Lemmy app is the opposite of another Lemmy app, if one app defaulted to Lemmygrad and the other to Exploding Heads.

      • Decoy321
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        1110 months ago

        They meant in other contexts. As in, the latter is a decent platform full of ways to find educated, diverse commentary. The former is an echo chamber filled with rancid, hate-filled bullshit.

      • XusonthaOP
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        410 months ago

        Well, more of the antithesis since the kind/stance of the content

      • pjhenry1216
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        310 months ago

        It’s essentially forked mastodon. There’s no federation with it. It’s just using the core functionality. Plus Mastodon’s development had a goal and vision. TruthSocial is somewhat antithetical to it.

      • @KIM_JONG@lemmy.world
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        310 months ago

        But there’s a difference between branding and backend implementation.

        If I search for Lemmy.world and I get back hexbear, are you going to say that’s the right result since they are both Lemmy?

    • cynetri (he/any)
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      410 months ago

      Yup, they didn’t comply with the license Mastodon uses (Affero General Public License) by not publishing the source code and making it accessible via something like a button and they got a legal notice to either add one or get sued