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

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      54
      arrow-down
      7
      ·
      1 year ago

      Of course they started with an existing platform to save time and money. When anyone else does it, it’s a smart way to save time and money. When anyone related to captain cheese ball does it, it’s because he’s cheap as shit. I wonder if the devs ever got paid.

    • KIM_JONG@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      1 year ago

      Lol the posts are called Truths. Someone should start Fake Social where the posts are called Fakes. And you can Refake others Fakes.

    • Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      They actually tried to hide that fact and even removed references to Mastodon in the UI until SF Conversancy threatened to sue them and permanently cut their license to it.

  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    77
    ·
    1 year ago

    The truthier something claims to be, the less it is.

    When I was out for a walk the other month, I saw a newspaper in a waterproof bag, propped up at the side of the path by a hedge. It was called The Light, and boldly claimed to be “the uncensored truth”. Would you believe it, it turned out to be full of Covid conspiracy nonsense and anti-semitism.

    In my day we just found discarded grotty porn in hedges, now it’s right wing nutbaggery. I fear for our youth. We need to distribute more copies of Reader’s Wives and Razzle across the flora and fauna of Britain.

    • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      1 year ago

      They took the centerfolds out of Playboy, then stopped printing it altogether and look where it’s got us. Soggy forest porn was a rite of passage for many young froods, along with the VHS tapes with an innocuous label like a Disney cartoon affixed atop. Here in the states we have the Mormons and JWs passing around their rags, extolling various exclusionary ideologies and the same anti vax stuff while their congregations are all getting infected en masse. Fucking madness, I want to try another planet 👍

    • rmuk@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      1 year ago

      You don’t live near Mansfield do you? I used to see that all the time around there (I moved away recently) and I made a point of picking them up and throwing them away.

      • Blackmist@feddit.uk
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        1 year ago

        I’m down the M1 a bit in sunny Long Eaton.

        I suspect one of the canal boat people left it. Most of them seem normal enough, but you do have the odd ones with golliwogs in their boat windows, or alt-righty looking flags flying.

  • OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    68
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    TS:The truth, the main stream media don’t want you to know!!!

    Me:Like what?..

    TS:HUNTER BIDENS!!!

    Me: Biden kid ok?

    TS:HIS LAPTOP!!!

    Me:His laptop what?

    TS:HIS LAPTOP!!

    Me:Got it the US government needs fresh blood who knows how to use a laptop like Hunter Biden.

    TS:Arghhh argghh Arghhh Rawr LAPTOP!!

    Meaning of story not many old politicians know how yo use laptops, I think?

    • Xusontha@ls.buckodr.inkOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      43
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      bbbbUT THE LAPTOP!!! ITS FULL OF STUFF!!! TRUST ME I SAID SO!!! HUNTER BAD HE HAS A LAPTOP!!!

  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    54
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    5 minutes ago I searched the app store for the word “Arby’s”. First result? The Hardee’s app. SEO is a cancer.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zone
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        9
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • Decoy321@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          11
          ·
          1 year ago

          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.

        • pjhenry1216@kbin.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          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.

        • KIM_JONG@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          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?

      • Cynetri (he/any)@midwest.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        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

  • CaptainAlcohol@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    1 year ago

    This is a sponsored app, if you notice it’s an add. They likely paid to get there. The actual search result is below the add

    • Hydroel@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      24
      ·
      1 year ago

      It is an ad, and also a really shitty practice to display it exactly like it was the first result of your research.

        • Hydroel@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          17
          ·
          1 year ago

          It was designed to blend in with the search results. It’s the same shitty design as the sponsored results appearing like they were the first few results of your Google or Bing search, or ads appearing as unread emails in Gmail or Hotmail.

      • CaptainAlcohol@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Not really, his supporters are dumping so much money for his legal defences, he’s got 3 PAC, of which he’s using 2. On top of that it appears that he’s OK with investing his own money if that weren’t enough. And he’s got billions of private funds…

        • yata@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          Sure, but the company behind TS is in big financial troubles. The raised money definitely doesn’t go into TS itself.

    • Xusontha@ls.buckodr.inkOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Yeah, but ads are supposed to be enticing; that was supposed to be part of the joke but apparently neither worked haha

        • Genghis@monero.town
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          10
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Why Fdroid is not secure:

          1. Hosts an outdated APK client.
          2. Utilizes an obsolete installation method.
          3. Does not take advantage of modern appstore features.
          4. Has no moderation.
          5. Has no old app deletion.
          6. Has an arbitrary FOSS only rule.
          7. Does all building and signing themselves.
          • Alex@discuss.online
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago
            1. Not outdated

            2. That’s the standard method

            3. What features?

            4. AFAIK it dods

            5. Just don’t install the old apps then.

            6. That’s literally why it was made. To distribute FOSS apps.