The head of engineering for the company that operates former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Truth Social app told Reuters on Monday he had resigned, in a blow for the venture.

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    Alex Gleason, for anyone wondering he’s said he’s going to work full time on…

    open-source technology for “decentralized” social media platforms that operate on independently-run servers and provide an alternative to Twitter and Facebook. … developing technology for connecting multiple decentralized platforms

    Reinventing the fediverse? Watch out for that, I guess.

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      Reinventing the wheel but worse is what the right-wing’s always been good at.

      If you won’t accept them in your club, they’ll make their own with Whitejack and Alpha-malesᵗᵐ

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      Gleason used to contribute to pleroma before the split.

      They prob just wanted a tailor made soapbox.fe and once it was done didn’t have any more work.

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        Good to know, I thought there might be something weird about software with a name heavily embedded in Christian theology, so I should have seen that coming.