Absolutely not. I didn't want to use a comment to talk about our project and hijack the comments section, just to provide where my perspective is coming from and that even with that I like the idea and Mastodon's approach.
To be clear: No, I'm not the one who made Truth, have no part of it, and don't know anyone working on it.
I'm not familiar with Truth Social except for what I've read in the comments here. What makes you say that building this will cost a soul? How does this differ from other social networks? (Or do you believe working on Twitter/FB also cost one one's soul?). What effects do you think the builders would have?
Found that odd too. Jumping to conclusions, and moralizing based on that. Not sure what the purpose was. It lead to other users digging into the other commenter, which is somewhat creepy.
Assuming that a soul is something that lasts an infinite length of time, and you value its experience during that time, and its experience cannot benefit from money (or anything exchangeable for money) after some finite period of time, I think that no amount of money is sufficient compensation for losing ownership of your soul.
Even if you are unconcerned about your soul, morals, or ethics, tech workers at TMTG are surely ending their careers. Who would employ them after that?
Friendly reminder: if you feel passionate and excited about someone else being denied employment, or otherwise punished based on their views, you are likely being manipulated. By caring about those things you care less about demanding a better deal for yourself, and that's exactly what the media wants. USSR was built on that kind of manipulation and now it's coming here.
No, McCarthyism was an anti-communist panic in the USA. They're referring to USSR propaganda. I assure you, resentment over a better quality of life was not driving McCarthyism. Quality of life was far lower in the USSR, in addition to the fact that the Union and SSRs had more mass killings and abuses of citizens than United States by orders of magnitude:
"I have seen the future, and it works!" is nothing more than demonstrably false propaganda. See here the anarcho-communist Emma Goldman say it themselves:
