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  • thervingi
    4·
    2 years ago

    As much as I hate the people behind Truth Social, I welcome more competition to Big Tech.

    • krolden
      5·
      2 years ago

      Can we please stop saying ‘big tech’, especially when referring to social media companies? These are not tech companies, they are advertising companies that sell your information to other advertising companies (or whomever).

    • altair222@beehaw.org
      53·
      2 years ago

      More competition doesn’t work if there’s a whole platform dedicated to hateful misinformation.

      • thervingi
        41·
        2 years ago

        Better than Zuckerberg deciding what we’re allowed to say.

        • altair222@beehaw.org
          61·
          2 years ago

          Eh? You do know that truth social is just going to ban any opposing worldviews right? Hell its even known to use mastodon code illegally. They’re not one of the better ones out there.

          • Stoned_Ape
            3·
            2 years ago

            You do know that truth social is just going to ban any opposing worldviews right?

            Lemmy started out like that as well. It has drastically changed, though. Good on the devs for that. I really mean it.

          • thervingi
            3·
            2 years ago

            Reread what I wrote. I don’t expect Truth Social to be anything good. It’s just that having alternatives is better than a single monopoly.

            • krolden
              2·
              2 years ago

              Its an alternative the same way r/conservative is an alternative to r/thedonald. Except instead of answering to reddit admins they have to worry about their host putting up with their shit, ddosing, and everything else that comes with running your own platform.

              Shit like this is still controlled by a group of people dedicated to spreading their bullshit ‘truth’ while silencing any opinions/facts that disagree with their predetermined narrative.

              • sibachian
                1·
                2 years ago

                i really don’t see the issue with that though. isn’t it great that they’re over there, rather than in here?

                • altair222@beehaw.org
                  2·
                  2 years ago

                  No, bubbles never work for the better of the society. Constant intellectual challenge on the other hand does.

            • altair222@beehaw.org
              21·
              2 years ago

              And I’m just saying we need better mainstream alternatives. This is nothing to be celebrated because this just puts a stain on alt-tech

              • thervingi
                3·
                2 years ago

                Quite the contrary. If Truth Social succeeds, then it will encourage more competition to enter this space. If it fails, then people will be reluctant to enter this space.

          • krolden
            2·
            2 years ago

            They already ban anyone without a full on trump loving opinion. Its just more weaponization of freeze peach.

          • Sandro LinuxOPM
            11·
            2 years ago

            Hell its even known to use mastodon code illegally.

            Truth Social’s code is open source. It uses elements of Mastodon and Soapbox.

            • [moved to hexbear]
              3·
              2 years ago

              The only reason they released the source code is because people dug around the pre-release versions of the site and found it was based on Mastodon, while TS claimed they owned all copyrights to the software. They were in breach of Mastodon’s license.

              They would have gotten away with it if this had never came to light.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
        31·
        2 years ago

        What’s important is invalidating the idea that only a handful of oligarch owned sites are legitimate media. The more alternative platforms appear the more the better in my opinion.

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
            11·
            2 years ago

            Of course, but my point was that normalizing having a lot of different sites is valuable. One of the main problems I see is the notion that only information that comes from a few mainstream sites is legitimate, and everything else can just be ignored out of hand. Having more media platforms and public forums is helping challenge that.