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So it seems after embarrassingly stumbling out of the block truthsocial.com is back up talking pre-registrations but the mustache-and-glasses-wearing masto instance at tmediatech.io has been taken out of public view after the blatant copyright violations were called out.
Taking into consideration The Don's track record of being cheap, lazy, opportunistic and unscrupulous I suspect theie plans are thus:
Plan A: offer @Gargron a few million dollars for a non-GPL license to (continue) using Mastodon code. If Eugen accepts this would be the least-effort option, and probably least cost because tmediatech would just not honour the deal by using avoidance techniques up to and including filing chapter 11 bankruptcy to Eugen gets ripped off.
Plan B: Eugen probably (hopefully) is not for sale at any price, so they quietly keep modifying their masto fork to remove all outward evidence of Masto before putting it back online. They will probably get called out again.
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This whole saga is disheartening. Not only is there blatant exploitation of #opensouce code but also the fragmentation of discourse that the Internet was supposed to remove. People will segregate in their own ideologically aligned media ecosystems and live in forever echo chambers.
I suppose this was predictable, humans don't like other humans and this sort of fragmentation has happened before, often.
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@fssofdeath @Gargron echo chambers are not new, nor are they especially evil. People have always lived in bubbles or echo chambers to some degree.
What is new and dangerous is the active algorithmic amplification of agreeable echo chambers and suppression of disagreeable ones.
There have always been enclaves of kooks and extremists, but it has only been in the last 15 years or so that these sorts could not only broadcast their vileness with a click of a button, they get active help from the platforms to find and engage those who are vulnerable to their messages.
truth social is not the real danger here as it will liely be a very insular or completely unfederated instance. The REAL danger will be the legions of trumpists who sign up there and leverage the engagement engines of Facebook, Youtube, Twitter etc. to recruit more.