https://twitter.com/hayskali/status/1593449877094047744?s=46&t=b1dk8mIJLbDkEEyiwQyNFQ
Apparently Mastodon changed from “tooting” to “posting,” so there’s some progress. Still not quite ready for primetime.
Literally just watched this episode for the first time last night.
This was discussed before, and I know the scale of each site isn’t comparable, but Truth seems like a reasonable Twitter knockoff, how did they do it and how hard would it be for someone else to do the same thing but bigger?
I think it’s a mastodon fork running an isolated instance
This season of Silicon Valley is lit
I would personally avoid naming a business after anything that is extinct.
Tooting>posting
We call that seagull management. They fly in, shit all over the place, then leave. It’s all too common sadly.
It is. Mastodon threatened to sue them if they didn’t acknowledge it per their license, so they put up the required notice and a link to their source code.
That page 404’s now though.
Seems to vibe with the theory that he is destroying it on purpose.
I can’t buy this theory
I guess I can only buy the him retconning it as that afterwards. Totally agree he did not premeditate it.