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A few days ago I noticed and made a post about the fact that TruthSocial was still linking to the Mastodon code base... https://poal.co/s/SocialMedia/504350

Today I noticed that TruthSocial removed the link https://truthsocial.com/open-source and I went to comment on the post but I found the entire sub is gone... and so are dozens of other subs. All deleted by a now deleted user. So some one table flipped, disabled all of the subs they owned, and then deleted their account.

https://poal.co/sitelog

This is an eye opening event for me... This seems like a unintended backdoor to censorship. I know we have malicious actors that visit Poal and I would not be surprised if some sub owners are sleeper agents. Are we OK with subs being able to just disappear with no over site?

A few days ago I noticed and made a post about the fact that TruthSocial was still linking to the Mastodon code base... https://poal.co/s/SocialMedia/504350 Today I noticed that TruthSocial removed the link https://truthsocial.com/open-source and I went to comment on the post but I found the entire /s/SocialMedia sub is gone... and so are dozens of other subs. All deleted by a now deleted user. So some one table flipped, disabled all of the subs they owned, and then deleted their account. https://poal.co/sitelog This is an eye opening event for me... This seems like a unintended backdoor to censorship. I know we have malicious actors that visit Poal and I would not be surprised if some sub owners are sleeper agents. Are we OK with subs being able to just disappear with no over site?

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[–] • 1 pt

It may not have been maliciously intended

Yeah I was not necessarily saying this was malicious... I was saying how many subs do you know that are owned by people you trust? How many were created by SBBH? by Q followers? by incels? By feds? By SaneGoat alts?

...and all of a sudden I fear that things could blow up any moment

[–] • 1 pt

I know, it was more of an observation that the person in question didn't show up much, probably just deleted their account and moved on.

It's interesting tho, how many people will immediately jump on something like that and yell about how it's state-sponsored bad actors, etc. We've really become jaded these last few decades, but for good reason I guess.

[–] • 2 pts

I too lament how jaded we have become. While I feel that it is warranted and prudent, I also feel it is our Achilies heel. We jump at our shadows because everything could be a fed. Without mutual trust communities cannot be formed. Without communities, grass root movements cannot happen.