Technology TRUTH Social: Donald Trump's new planned Social Media Network

[Husky_Khan]

A beta will roll out in November of 2021 with an expected public rollout in Q1 of 2022. It is being released by something called the Trump Media & Technology Group.

The app, which will begin a beta launch for invited guests in November 2021, is expected to make its full debut within the first quarter of 2022 and is a part of the newly established Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG).

Trump, who will serve as chairman of TMTG, released a statement announcing the planned arrival of the platform and insisted the effort will push back against platforms that lean left and that it will "give a voice to all."

"I created TRUTH Social and TMTG to stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech," Trump said. "We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American President has been silenced. This is unacceptable"

Trump announces 'TRUTH Social' network will be rolled out first quarter of 2022

Former President Donald Trump announced Wednesday the forthcoming “TRUTH Social,” a social media network which aims to "stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech."

www.foxnews.com

Wait to see if there's an epic fail in this rollout as it has been with many other right leaning technology initiatives as of late.

And a link to the Press Release:

Announcement October 20, 2021

Trump Media & Technology Group is here counter this bias and dangerous exercise of tech monopoly, Donald J. Trump and TMTG are building a media and technology company rooted in social media, digital streaming, information technology infrastructure, and more.

www.tmtgcorp.com

 

[LindyAF]

Parler 2.0, this is going to be a mess. This doesn't avoid the attack used against Gab or Telegram (or Parler, for that matter), being censored from the apple or google app stores, in any way. Maybe if he launched this when he got censored in early January this would have been significant, but a year later is just too late.

If Trump wants a social media account he should get on Gab or Telegram. Hell, even Parler if it's still around.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Parler 2.0, this is going to be a mess. This doesn't avoid the attack used against Gab or Telegram (or Parler, for that matter), being censored from the apple or google app stores, in any way. Maybe if he launched this when he got censored in early January this would have been significant, but a year later is just too late.

If Trump wants a social media account he should get on Gab or Telegram. Hell, even Parler if it's still around.

Parler is still around. And he's active on Rumble as well it seems. And there's that new app Gettr which is apparently a thing as well which I never felt compelled to even glance at.

 

[LindyAF]

Yes, there plenty of alt-tech apps. The problem isn't "nobody has tried making one."

 

[Cherico]

Yes, there plenty of alt-tech apps. The problem has isn't "nobody has tried making one."

Silicon vally was techically born during the late 30s, and all of the work to create the internet took years to manifest, and the tech industry as we know it got started during the 70s, and didn't start truely making a changes on a societal scale until the early 90s. The fact that its taking awhile for alt-tech to develope is normal the fact that its gotten this good this fast should impress you.

Liberal monopolies are being broken faster and faster progress is being made but yes it is going to take years to get where we all want to be and it is going to be hard but we are making progress on that front.

 

[LindyAF]

Great point and I don't really disagree. A few years ago you probably could probably fairly say "nobody has tried making rw twitter etc." and it'd be totally accurate. I just don't think Trump's social media thing moves us at all forward on this. If he'd switched to something else in January 2021, then that would have encouraged standardization on a specific new platform. Trump is in his 70s and tends to surround himself with bad actors, so I think that there's going to be very little to recommend the new platform from a technical perspective and a lot of potential for security issues.

As an example, IIRC there's already allegations that the new platform is based on copied Mastodon code.

 

[Sir 1000]

Won't take but a minute to sign up regardless of what happens and the larger the user base the more lefty asspain If it actually takes off that's just a bonus.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Not really a serious hack, but Anonymous was able to access the beta and make an account. Then again... so was a Washington Post reporter, so the screening process can't be that vigorous.

Donald Trump's social media platform hacked just hours after it was announced, reports say

Hackers gained access to a private version of former President Trump’s social network and posted images of defecating pigs and more.

www.usatoday.com

 

[LindyAF]

Won't take but a minute to sign up regardless of what happens and the larger the user base the more lefty asspain If it actually takes off that's just a bonus.

Parler leaked user data and had a "verified citizen" thing which encouraged people to actually give them important info.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

Parler leaked user data and had a "verified citizen" thing which encouraged people to actually give them important info.

Supposedly, they deleted all the critical data, such as your driver's license image, once verified.

 

[Sir 1000]

Parler leaked user data and had a "verified citizen" thing which encouraged people to actually give them important info.

Isn't that basically the same as twitters checkmarks? Anyways, the fact that alt tech comes under so much fire is showing what the left fears. You can just use a burner email and a nick name if you want to be paranoid i guess. No one who complains about this should complain about big tech if they aren't even going to spend 2 minutes of trouble on an alternative.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

I have no problem with using something to verify the person online is who they claim to be. Makes it easier to spot the parody accounts that are EVERYWHERE.

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Had he done it like 3 years ago when social media and the news was constantly giving him attention, he could've gotten enough normies to make his platform a decently sized alternative to twitter and facebook, but the buzz around Trump has died down, so it has no hope of growing. Also, as mentioned (as we've seen before with Gab and Parler) it will be cancelled and won't grow. Andrew Torba had to fund Gab with checks that are physically mailed to him. All of the banks and payment processors banned him. There's a massive tech cartel that's an extension of the state with many ways to stop you from making your own Twitter, and Twitter has never made a profit.

The problem with Minds and Gab and other altTech social media is that there are no normies there. It's just content creators and crazies @ing and pinging each other. You need normies to make social media worth it, and if you're a businessmen you need normies to market to. They're just not there.

 

[LindyAF]

Isn't that basically the same as twitters checkmarks? Anyways, the fact that alt tech comes under so much fire is showing what the left fears. You can just use a burner email and a nick name if you want to be paranoid i guess. No one who complains about this should complain about big tech if they aren't even going to spend 2 minutes of trouble on an alternative.

A twitter checkmark is an exclusive thing that most people can't get, and anyone who wants one is already connecting their twitter to themselves IRL. The Parler verification IRL was something ordinary users could and were encouraged to do. And it's not about what you or I would do, it's about what a significant number of boomers and less tech-savvy gen Xers might do. Encouraging people to upload information to your not very secure website when just being on it could make you a doxxing target is negative value.

I'm on Telegram. I made a Gab a while back (although I haven't used it much). I'm not against using alternatives to mainstream social media (although Telegram isn't really alt-tech in the same way that say, Gab or Parler is), and I think it can be useful. Grift by the retarded GOPe types that surround Trump is not and can be actually harmful.

The problem with Minds and Gab and other altTech social media is that there are no normies there. It's just content creators and crazies @ing and pinging each other. You need normies to make social media worth it, and if you're a businessmen you need normies to market to. They're just not there.

Hmmm, so I think there is some value in alt-tech as it currently exists, given we're all on what is basically alt-SB. How I see it, is there's a couple different ways social media is useful for a political group or movement - the first and easiest to see is communicating with outsiders - propaganda, getting your message out, persuading people. For that you need normies. The second is communication within your group - partially just keeping morale up and making sure other people know that their are other people who think like them out there, but also for propagating good talking points and effective language and stuff like organizing. For the first, you need normies and so alt-tech is useless. Only way to do this is to cycle through alts on the mainstream site, or fly under the radar. There is potential value in the second. But yes, you're definitely right that even my "if he had done this in January" comment was a bit late- if he had done this when r was president that’s when the real opportunity would have been.

 

[Whitestrake Pelinal]

I have no problem with using something to verify the person online is who they claim to be. Makes it easier to spot the parody accounts that are EVERYWHERE.

I rather wish Blizzard hadn't flinched back in the day when they were pushing towards a real name policy. They could have started a trend.

 

[LindyAF]

I rather wish Blizzard hadn't flinched back in the day when they were pushing towards a real name policy. They could have started a trend.

I can understand allowing people to verify their identity, but I cannot fathom being a right winger and being against anonymity on the internet in the current situation.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

I got no problem with anonymity if you want to use it. I also have no problem with persons or sites that choose to go the fully 'outed' route with your real name as your ID.

 

[LindyAF]

I got no problem with anonymity if you want to use it. I also have no problem with persons or sites that choose to go the fully 'outed' route with your real name as your ID.

In the current world where being White and just being accused of being a racist can make you unemployable and make you a target for violence, and that accusation is leveled against all White Trump supporters... can you think of any reasons why a website for right wingers and conservatives maybe shouldn't be denormalizing anonymity?

Do you see any problem with, say, the practice some of the school boards pushing CRT have adopted of requiring concerned parents to give out their address before making a comment at a school board meeting?

 

[The Whispering Monk]

At some point, you have to stop empowering them by giving a crap.

 

[LindyAF]

Wow, what insight! People who get doxxed should just tell that to their employer. That marine who got 6 months in the brig should have just told Uncle Sam "just don't give a crap bro!" The women in the UK who have been arrested for posting online that men aren't women, or the kid who got arrested for having ~spooky books~ and the activists getting arrested and harassed by police in America for putting up fliers should have just cared less.