Musk has already turned Twitter into Truth Social anyway. So no need.
hey buddy, I hear you buy worthless shit that doesn’t make a profit.
It’s probably got some value, and I’d guess that its utility is either gonna be to politicians who want access to information about social media users who support Trump or to some other social media network that is already working on monetization, so that it can reuse existing stuff.
I’m skeptical that it’s worth much, though. The value is gonna be in the userbase.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social
Users: estimated 607,000 monthly users as of July 2023[4]
That’s not a whole lot.
Ostensibly a place for freer speech than Twitter, Truth Social
If Musk wants to create a separate social media platform with less-restrictive rules on content, I’d imagine that he’d be in a pretty good position to do that. He’s already got a codebase. Just needs to have a separate comment database from Twitter.
Don’t worry, the FSB will fund it, they need it since they’re only good at digital war and found out they’re bad at physical war
Can we talk about the thumbnail? Glorious.
I can’t tell if that’s a deepfake’d cross-eyed David Letterman high on cocaine or the jpeg compression is so bad it’s given everyone mutant fingers.
I feel like I seen that photo way before deepfake was a thing.
Reminds me of Pentecostal church as a kid.
This is a really old photo at this point. Where do you see mutant fingers? It looks normal to me.
HEY KIDS check out my Ryuk impression can you believe Netflix didn’t cast me !?
Isn’t it just a Mastodon instance?
Yup, and the Mastodon devs almost took them to court for stealing their code. Of course at the last minute Trump Media published their changes to Mastodon to adhere to the GPL.
Trump is insanely greedy, greed is literally the only thing he knows. It doesn’t matter if he picked up a dead leaf from a pile in the middle of autumn, he’d want to sell it to someone.
Unfortunately some dumbass maga moron would probably buy it…
They may still be on negotiations. I can picture Truth as “Y, the social network that comes after X”. It sure can’t fail. Then a merge can happen, they can call it Z or Musk may be bold about it and call it Ω.
Uft, imagine if that happened and musk chose a single unicode character as the domain?!
Unicode are already sanitised from domains, because there are ubicode characters that look like - but are distinct from - ascii characters… which opens a huge pandoras box of MITM attacks of malicious sites on domains that visually look the same as legit domains.If musk wants a single unicode character, all the browsers are going to have to figure out that can of worms
!remindme 1 year
They deserve each other.
So we’ve proven Elon can ruin a functional social media platform, but what about a dysfunctional one? He might… Fix it?
Literally nobody cares
Some opera company could make a killing putting on Pagliacci with trump as Canio.
This is probably a super sick burn in the opera community.
Why would he do that, when he could smart-ass his way into a legally binding contract to buy Twitter for much more money, and then trash it until it’s interchangeable with Truth?
Though I must say I’m still upset at the losers that are still on twitter.
I feel like people changed drastically over the last two decades and are more likely to accept being fucked in the ass by corporations.
Remember what happened to digg when they changed the site to control the articles that are being posted? Or to Myspace when it was purchased by Murdoch?
What the hell happened?
