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They hired a North Macedonian development group to create a a cheap copy of the Mastodon code and tried to remove all logos & mentions of Mastodon in the source code.

It'd be like announcing that you're creating what will be the world's most popular website builder and blogging platform, then spending 10k to just rip off WordPress and thinking job done. It's hilariously inept.

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The more hilarious thing is that, Parler did actually just use Wordpress to make their "new" social network! It ran hilariously slow up to the point that it ramped up their server costs, and eventually led to someone hacking the whole thing via a Wordpress vulnerability (hence terabytes of private data getting leaked all over the place).

Didn't realize that and that is hilarious. But I wouldn't expect anything else from parler

> They hired a North Macedonian development group

Way to keep jobs in the USA, I guess? But perhaps this was a 4d-chess move to stay outside of the influence of US/western 'big tech' which 'silences' right wing Truth? Who can tell?

More like them only wanting to spend 5 days worth of a single outsourced coder's time. I can't imagine changing some CSS and find/replace "Mastodon" in the source code took much longer than that.

Just look at the "Infrastructure" slide (22) in their deck I posted above. It's like a middle schooler did a book report on web development.

wow yeah that's pretty lame...

slide 27 mentions mastodon as the backend for v1... as if they'll have the ability to just swap in something else later with 10M active users...

They'll just use firestore

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