Well folks, I do some really silly crap when I get bored.
With all the hoopla (or lack thereof) over Trump's epic fail on Truth Social, I got to wondering:
So I did a little reading and found out they were using Mastodon. I knew absolutely nothing about it, as most things.
So I look around the room and see I have my daughter's old laptop from high school - a 2.6 ghz, 2GB ram, 500 gb drive boat anchor sitting on the shelf. I fire it up and install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on it and the follow the directions for installing Mastodon.
To be fair, the instructions are a bit backwards in some areas, so it took a bit of trial and error to get it to actually work.
So click here to check it out.
And here's the first "toot" from it:
truthsocial.exposingwot.com
So, this begs the question if a guy with my lack of talent can put this together in about an hour on this antiquated laptop:
That is sitting on this baby fridge in the basement office:
That is stocked with V8 juice for the love of Christ
All for absolutely ZERO costs, just exactly what the hell is the problem with Devin Nunes and Truth Social?
So head on over and check it out. You will find:
With all the hoopla (or lack thereof) over Trump's epic fail on Truth Social, I got to wondering:
So I did a little reading and found out they were using Mastodon. I knew absolutely nothing about it, as most things.
So I look around the room and see I have my daughter's old laptop from high school - a 2.6 ghz, 2GB ram, 500 gb drive boat anchor sitting on the shelf. I fire it up and install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on it and the follow the directions for installing Mastodon.
To be fair, the instructions are a bit backwards in some areas, so it took a bit of trial and error to get it to actually work.
So click here to check it out.
And here's the first "toot" from it:
Gomez Adams (@[email protected])
So here it is! Hosted on an antiquated laptop my daughter used in high school, fueled by her college baby fridge stocked with V8 juice! Knock yourselves out!
So, this begs the question if a guy with my lack of talent can put this together in about an hour on this antiquated laptop:
That is sitting on this baby fridge in the basement office:
That is stocked with V8 juice for the love of Christ
All for absolutely ZERO costs, just exactly what the hell is the problem with Devin Nunes and Truth Social?
So head on over and check it out. You will find:
- Nobody there.
- No active posts other than my own.
- It actually works!
- There's no waiting list!
- You don't need an app!
- I don't want your data!
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