link me to where they said it would be fully functional. They’ve been in a beta since feb, they’re building it FROM SCRATCH. they only opened to apple users in the US. they cannot depend on any big tech for apps or servers. What else? the arrogance about how perfect TS needs to be or it’s a failure is extremely disturbing. Especially from conservatives.
there is no comparison of TS to any other platform due to the demand. Who else had this kind of demand? who?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/17/tech/trump-app-beta/index.html
“Nunes added that he expects Truth Social to be fully open to the public by the end of March.”
They’ve made it ‘fully open’. It doesn’t work.
Also, one reason why many tech-savvy people are incredulous about how bad this launch is is because Truth Social is *not* built from scratch. They chose to build it on an existing free and open-source software package called Mastodon. The TS developers then promptly violated the terms of license by not releasing their modifications to the package publicly. They had to be harassed to do so for a couple months.
Even assuming that they were unwilling to outsource the servers for shutdown concerns, that’s already a solved issue. Just check with porn providers to see what they do - they buy their own server hardware and get ironclad contracts with datacenters to do co-location. There’s nothing here that couldn’t be solved with competence and money. They evidently have the money, which leaves competence missing.
“We are soft-launching this and it should be considered a public beta test so we can iron out problems.”
I’ve received hundreds of emails. All ask for money to benefit NRSC. Among them was the phrase “soft-launch”.
Thanks for the reality post. I can’t believe the whining from Trump supporters. I assume they are, here on FR.