On: Ex-US President Donald Trump announces social media site

[makeworld]

They've disabled signups now, but yes, they were using Mastodon. Proof: https://hackers.town/@thegibson/107137582573450090

> the fediverse[1] is about to get "interesting"

The Mastodon community has dealt with this before when Gab came along. The majority of servers will just block the Trump instance.

And that's if they even enable federation. I suspect they won't.

[streamofdigits → makeworld]

it is stil a remarkable event, in particular if it ever registers in non-technical circles

[secondcoming → makeworld]

'sensitive content'

Why's that, because it's Trump related?

[belltaco → secondcoming]

I think it's because the author marked it so.