Look at the laughable "Infrastructure" slides on their investment deck:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000119312521...
And all this bluster just to pay someone in Eastern Europe to re-skin an existing open source project. It should take about a week to recreate what they've done. It's like saying you're going to make the #1 Slack competitor then just re-skinning Mattermost. It's pathetic.
I love open source and all the ways it benefits the world. But I hate exaggerated bravado when the actual service is the very definition of average.
With free software, yes. It also includes undesirables as well.
> It's odd to use an open source software when you feel the developers are actively trying to catch you slip up to bring you down permanently.
Well it seems that the Mastodon developers have forgotten that there aren't any restrictions in free software except for the terms of the license and in the end Truth Social complied. So that is that.
Putting special source code restrictions on other users beyond the AGPL intends to basically defeats the purpose of free software.