Gab and Truth Social use Mastodon as their base, they just don’t federate.
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taiyang@lemmy.world 2 days agoOh no this one I know is real, I just mean, imagine how incredibly unlikely a story it’d be if they joined Lemmy or a Piefed instance.
They don’t really fit bluesky either but it’s popular enough I can see them try, lol
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 22 hours ago
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Truth social is (or was) based on mastodon, with the federation code removed.
Natanael@infosec.pub 2 days ago
One of those right wing instances started with federation, but after getting counter trolled, mass blocked, and then mass defederated, they called sour grapes and disabled federation
taiyang@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh that makes sense, the codes probably open source. Those goons probably have minimal experience actually developing an app from scratch.
thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It is, but only because Mastodon strong-armed them.