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The funniest thing about Truth Social is that it’s a fork of Mastodon.
Mastodon.world cost $1200 to run last month. And running it was hobby-level effort by a guy who admins lemmy.world AND has a proper day job and family.
They’re selling ads and have a couple web devs to tweak their version of Mastodon, and they can’t even pull in enough ad revenue to make that work. 😆
Fucking clown shoes.
Just means it's another grift where someone is getting paid but the people doing the actual work probably aren't.
TIL lmao
It's so nice to see someone else use "fucking clown shoes" as an insult. Made my day 🤣
Holy shit that's funny.
How the hell is M.World costing $1200 a month ! ? Its not that heavy on activity. Uni or Mastodonapp.uk probably has more and costs less to run. I mean I run cupoftea.social with 5000 users at £80 a month.
They openly post their finances, you can take a look: https://blog.mastodon.world/
The $1200 is for both mastodon.world and lemmy.world combined, but yeah. Most of it (80%) is going towards Hetzner, which is their cloud storage/hosting provider.
Clone Twitter, a famously unprofitable business, then remove cool celebrities and fill it with Nazis, misogynists, and other people that advertisers and their customers hate.
Profit?
I just don’t understand how this wouldn’t work out….
twice
Elon: “I bet it would work with video chat and Venmo bolted on.”
The amount of evidence it has gathered for future FBI investigations?…priceless
It would be interesting if someone could calculate the amount of prison time and damages that came as a result of people using his platform.
I know people who ostensibly voted for this chode because of his businesses acumen.
Those are rookie numbers. Some guy lost 500 times more on another social media platform in a shorter timespan.
LOL! Amazing businessman. LOL!
management has substantial doubt that TMTG will have sufficient funds to meet its liabilities as they fall due, including liabilities related to promissory notes previously issued by TMTG
i hear another Trump Bankruptcy Train 'a comin down the tracks wooo woooo
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The numbers were revealed in a new financial disclosure from TMTG’s SPAC merger partner Digital World Acquisition Corp.
The filing indicates that, if TMTG is unable to complete the merger with DWAC, and receive the pot of money on the line, it may not survive.
The amended S-4 filing also broke out a number of updates and risk factors related to the company, including the fact that the long-planned streaming video service appears to be off the table for now.
The filing makes no mention of the service (which was teased with conservative comedy specials and “Trump-specific programming”) except in relation to layoffs.
“This action followed a review of all departments, most significantly impacted TMTG’s streaming video on demand (SVOD) and infrastructure teams.”
In May of 2022, Trump agreed to make Truth Social his primary social platform, agreeing not to post on other platforms until 6 hours after he sends a “Truth.” However, since initially signing the deal with TMTG, Elon Musk acquired Twitter and reinstated Trump’s account (he also rebranded it as “X.”)
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$73millions to manipulate your followers through unhinged tirades against your political enemies and destabilize a nations government - Putin says, "worth it!"
Good.