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Ex-US President Donald Trump announces social media site

by traviskuhl on 10/21/21, 12:54 PM with 28 comments

  • by makeworld on 10/21/21, 1:22 PM

    Notably, their ToS forbids you from criticizing the site.

    > 23. disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Site.

    https://truthsocial.com/terms-of-service/

  • by timdiggerm on 10/21/21, 1:10 PM

    This is amusing, given that the Soviet newspaper was Pravda, or "Truth"

  • by arenaninja on 10/21/21, 1:15 PM

    I'd be scared to work for a company under the man's control with all the news articles about him stiffing others on payment, but it will be interesting to see if conservative tech workers who complain about being in the minority will flock to build his effort

  • by streamofdigits on 10/21/21, 1:12 PM

    apparently they used open source mastodon[0].

    the fediverse[1] is about to get "interesting".

    its like that scene from a Western movie where a bunch of black-dressed men ride towards a serene bucolic ranch and the family inside looks through the window with a sense of foreboding

    [0] https://joinmastodon.org/

    [1] https://fediverse.party/

  • by RicoElectrico on 10/21/21, 1:40 PM

    I expect it will be a gift that keeps on giving, like the Polish equivalent "Albicla" which was a total debacle, with rookie security mistakes where half of users were Popes ;)

    https://www.politico.eu/article/albicla-poland-anti-censorsh...

  • by alfiedotwtf on 10/21/21, 1:13 PM

    Going to be hard to run a social media site from prison. But seriously, I'm surprised it's October and he hasn't felt a single consequence to his many actions.

    But back on topic. If he's trying to say that his platform won't cancel people, what happens when the Taliban do sign up, or it's flooded with left leaning users?

  • by ph2082 on 10/21/21, 1:17 PM

    Should have named it 'Irony'/'Ironic'/'Ironical'.

  • by rchaud on 10/21/21, 1:27 PM

    > “We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American President has been silenced.

    Everything is framed in 'us vs them' language even now I see. Not surprising considering the data they've gotten from doing supporter polls. Here's an example; I wish it wasn't real, but it is.

    "Who would you rather see fix our Nation’s shattered immigration policies?

    Option 1: "President Trump"

    Option 2: "A MS-13 Loving Democrat"

    Feel free to peruse the other insightful questions here. They'd be hilarious if you remove the fact that this was part of a former head of state's official campaign.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20200703042946/https://www.donal...

  • by dredmorbius on 10/21/21, 1:56 PM

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  • by optimalsolver on 10/21/21, 1:12 PM

    > HL Mencken once said that “the trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.” There’s an unfortunate corollary to this, which is that if you try to create a libertarian paradise, you will attract three deeply virtuous people with a strong committment to the principle of universal freedom, plus millions of scoundrels.

    https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-central...

  • by tmaly on 10/21/21, 4:42 PM

    A little late to the game? This is like starting a newspaper.

  • by ryandvm on 10/21/21, 1:17 PM

    May you live in interesting times indeed...

  • by duxup on 10/21/21, 1:13 PM

    Isn't this the second attempt at this sort of thing for Trump?