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

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        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.

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          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.

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          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?

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          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.

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        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