The head of engineering for the company that operates former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Truth Social app told Reuters on Monday he had resigned, in a blow for the venture.

  • fiat_lux
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    721 year ago

    Alex Gleason, for anyone wondering he’s said he’s going to work full time on…

    open-source technology for “decentralized” social media platforms that operate on independently-run servers and provide an alternative to Twitter and Facebook. … developing technology for connecting multiple decentralized platforms

    Reinventing the fediverse? Watch out for that, I guess.

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        371 year ago

        Apparently the backend still is, just a customised version to exclude poll and post visibility option functionality. I assume there are other changes too, because he and his team swapped the frontend out for their own and made a Web app version. Not much to show for 16 months since launch, really. Embarrassing.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social#Software is a fun read

    • Th4tGuyII
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      351 year ago

      Reinventing the wheel but worse is what the right-wing’s always been good at.

      If you won’t accept them in your club, they’ll make their own with Whitejack and Alpha-malesᵗᵐ

    • JoYo
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      31 year ago

      Gleason used to contribute to pleroma before the split.

      They prob just wanted a tailor made soapbox.fe and once it was done didn’t have any more work.

      • fiat_lux
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        21 year ago

        Good to know, I thought there might be something weird about software with a name heavily embedded in Christian theology, so I should have seen that coming.