Truth Social is just a masked defederated Mastodon instance.
Truth Social is just a masked defederated Mastodon instance.
There have been several VERY NASTY CVEs since I set up matapacos in 2022.
Remote code execution: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-9928-3cp5-93fm A.K.A. "Toot Root"
Hijacking user accounts: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-3fjr-858r-92rw
Among others (there was at least one more really bad one)
someone smarter than me has the chance to do something extremely funny
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I would be hilarious if someone hijacked Trump's account using that vuln
I want to go on record that if Trump suddenly says "I AM YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR OUR BIG WET BOY!" - I had nothing to do with it.
I was gonna say, there are probably some spicy remote code execution bugs still alive in there.
This is gonna be another Gab lmao
Gab also is just a de-branded Mastodon fork.
Thank you for maintaining that instance btw
This seems to have been known since Oct. 2021: Mastodon's Founder Says Trump's New Social Network Is Just Mastodon
Weren't they also forced to admit that and/or publish their code because of a potential GPL conflict?
yeah, they published their code, but in an inconvenient manner. They also updated it once every few months (and then stopped after a year).
It's hilarious that they haven't gone after his IPO. He has an outdated mastodon clone with 1m active monthly "users", $3.4m in 2023 revenue, and $49m in 2023 expenses. That's such a shitty penny stock of a company and yet he made
$5B$3B from that.Holy shit that's a good grift, I had no idea
"A fool and their money are soon parted."
-Dr. John Bridges
"There are a disproportionately large number of fools in the Trump-supporting population."
- MeetInPotatoes
Trump made 5 BILLION off Truth Social??
Correction: https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/1772686796817666098
The soaring stock price, which climbed by more than 30% Monday, would value the company at more than $5 billion, which could give Trump an eye-popping personal windfall of about $3 billion for the 79 million shares he owns.
The former president is barred from selling the shares for six months, although the company could tweak those restrictions.
The board is stacked by him so they'll likely approve an early sale for $3B+- whatever the stock price reaches by then, at which point it will probably be a pump and dump.
Yeah he's got a deal going where they IPO it and fleece the hogs and he gets a big pile of stock. It's what he should have done with that dumb casino company he put together back in the 90s, but he just used that to offload his bad debts instead, while having it pay him for his own jet travel and stuff like that to make a few million here and there on the side.
it's hilarious that they haven't gone after his IPO.
Billionaires can do what they want
Yeah Trump started it when The_Donald was banned from reddit. He named it after the podcast.
Some clever entrepreneurial software types could definitely have fun with this
Sure, why not? I can’t think of a reason for it not to be that.
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