During an interview with One America News {SEE HERE}, and another with The Washington Times {SEE HERE}, CEO Devin Nunes discussed the future of the social media platform Truth Social.
According to Mr. Nunes’ interview with the Washington Times, “Bottom line is it’s the fastest-growing social media company in history,” he said. Also telling OAN and the Washington Times that a web-based version of the platform is likely to launch in the next several weeks which will allow all users to join.
Currently, the platform is exclusive to Apple users via an app access to create accounts and engage with the platform. An Android version of the same app is anticipated soon. Using the mobile platforms for user engagement, the company does not currently need extensive proprietary server hosting capacity. However, to build out the web-based platform the data demand will require a significant expansion of server capacity.
It appears, from the interviews, that launching a web-based version of Truth Social [TruthSocial.com] will be coming in the next several weeks. As noted by the Times, “Truth Social’s critical startup move is to insulate the platform from Big Tech by using friendly servers that will keep it online. That web access to sign up on TruthSocial.com should happen in weeks; “Because we’re building this from scratch without using any of the tech tyrants, anyone who can cancel us, we have to go methodically, step by step, to ensure both quality and reliability,” Mr. Nunes says.
Washington Times Interview Here
Once they launch the web-based version of the platform, they are quickly going to have to figure out how to generate revenue. Data service capacity and performance are very expensive. That’s the reason why Twitter never included an edit feature before.
Each individual user engagement generates what’s known as “an ajax call”- a request to the server base. Hitting a like button is an ajax call. The reason the features cost so much money is the exponential scale of users on the platform. If 1 million users are on the service when you hit a “like” button, the call and return from the server bank does not only need to show you the result, it also needs to show every other user the result. With 1 million users, that translates to 1 million ajax call returns.
Facebook likely has a warehouse sized server bank just to handle the “like feature” all by itself. Now, imagine the scale of server expansion needed to deliver an edited comment response to all simultaneous users on Twitter. That’s why social media platforms are not profitable, they are still exhaustively expensive for data processing (functions per millisecond) and data capacity (simultaneous registered users).
Trust me, CTH is very well aware of how much these things cost. I can only imagine the burn rate of cash Truth Social will incur as soon as everyone can gain access. Their server banks will need to expand in scale and speed, likely to end up filling buildings the size of airports with hardware. That doesn’t count the back-up systems.
People who want alternative free speech platforms, and yet simultaneously criticize the time it takes to get these systems up and running, most certainly do not understand the scale of the technical challenges and issues. I can foresee Truth Social needing their own independent advertising platform also, which will essentially be like adding a Madison avenue executive set of offices to the organization.
They are going to need revenue that is not subject to the whims of other third-party payment processors and develop advertising systems outside the behemoth overlords at Google. These are not easy challenges to overcome.
Underwhelming launch.
Underwhelming comment.
“People who want alternative free speech platforms, and yet simultaneously criticize the time it takes to get these systems up and running, most certainly do not understand the scale of the technical challenges and issues. “
Agreed. I think Google is giving them a hard time for the android app.
I doubt that. Anyone can “side load” unauthorized apps on Android (far easier for Apple to pull the rug out on the app side). Honestly, I think it’s a matter of capacity– since they cannot leverage the “cloud providers”– it means they have to do it the old fashioned way (deploying fleets of hardware to scale)– so honestly, Apple/IOS was probably a good place to start, as app support on the many flavors and mfgs of Android can be a lot trickier– as well as with a HTML/Web interface, requires more hardware on their back end per user than an app.
Most people don’t bother with untrusted apps. If it’s not in PlayStore people will not download it by a ratio of 50:1.
I do it a lot.
You are the 1
Just add to Home Screen from the website. Had too many issues or unavailability of conservative sites. When I had AT&T as my network, they would delete Only my conservative sites, during the night. CTH, ZeroHedge, American Thinker, but left Breitbart. Would reload them from the websites.
“Most people dont”…
Source: trust me
Response: no, dear doomer, I dont.
Notice how many doomers imagine they’re psychics able to read the mind of a borg they call ” most people”.
It’s more of a challenge if you can’t get on play store. Just a fact.
Again, ask gab about the work around for that.
I really appreciate this comment, Sundance, as it’s necessary reminder to those of us (myself included) who have been impatient with the lengthier rollout time of the Truth Social platform. It’s good for all of us to recognize that apps like G00gle, Twat, Faceplant, etc may be “fast” but they are definitely NOT free, as we have all paid dearly for the “convenience” they supposedly brought into our lives!
I think many people, myself included at times, hope, dream and want so much for
change that they naturally become impatient.
Truth social must scare the heck out of the leftist government, because I read
rumblings online of mandates, laws, executive orders furthering suppression
of free speech at the federal level. Up to now they have had big tech and mega
corporations doing the job for them.
Two things have been taught beginning with the boomer generation.
1. Instant gratification without consequences.
2. A disposable society, including people.
No, you are talking post boomer time frames.
Definitely. When we boomers were children, sometimes we’d have to wait until Christmas to get that special toy. For some of us we waited several Christmases! For me it was my first bike. My dad got it from a cousin who had outgrown it. He painted it fire engine red. It was a glorious sight that Christmas morning and well worth the wait.
Not to mention the entire ‘MSM’.
Frankly speaking,
someone else also rose up to counter the censure tech oligarchs with
the 2021 development of
https://home.frankspeech.com
And it is helpful, for many seeking the truth, including video interviews with doctors, military, and computer experts.
Imho
Gettr also – I’ve enjoyed posting Treehouse articles there – will probably post this one.
(I’m not by nature subject to impatience. When I saw my waitlist number for TruthSocial somewhere around half a million, I simply chuckled and thought “all in good time.”)
Thanks to sundance for sharing his expertise in this endeavor – and he is indeed expert – we all saw what it took to build the new Treehouse, which is better than ever.
They should be honest and tell subscribers about timelines at the very least.
Were you that kid in the back seat constantly asking “when are we going to get there”?
Did you imagine the driver was not being ” honest” if he couldn’t indulge you?
“At the very least” reflect on the famous answer given to childish kill joys, ‘when we get there’.
Enjoy the journey. There’s no guarantee the destination will ever be reached. This present may be the last.
Best comment on the issue. PERIOD.
Thirty five years in the field. There are complex problems, not just in the applications themselves but especially in the security, redundancy, networking, storage and performance relative to scaling across what I always referred to as technology’s ICU: Implementation, customization and utilization.
I haven’t paid a lot of attention to Truth Social simply because surfing the ‘net is like drinking from a fire hose.
However to this ignorant one it seems they could have done a better job of preparing the potential user base as to “hey it’s gonna be rough we are facing a lot of dark forces so please be patient” – as I remember Sundance doing.
Second POTUS 45 would be welcomed with open arms should he choose to join there as he already has an account held for him. I’m not smart enough to figure out why not.
IMO “We” spend way too much time squabling amongst “ourselves” whereas the ultra-leftists seem to be a lot more disciplined and cohesive.
Ultra-Leftists are co-worshipers in a medieval theology, hence their cohesiveness. I’ve come to think they are comparable to the Medieval Church, under Torquemada et al.
Interesting and I think good analogy.
Happy with CNN+???
Rolling out an Apple-only product was, and remains, a big mistake.
TS rollout was “a big mistake”.
Armchair know it alls inspire pity, prayers and chuckles. I’ve always had a fondness for tweens.
Tweens, while annoying also offer humbling reminders that inspire patience and hope.
So how much is Soros paying you to come onto CTH and comment?
Read the post.
Boring comment!
😂😂😂😂
Thank you so much for reminding me to pray for all dark hearted doomers.
Hopefully they’ll choose to see the Light before its too late.
Give a good run of Elon’s money.
Torba’s gonna be ticked.
Don’t think he has anything to worry about…Didn’t they know these would be the problems they would face?
GGGGgggggggrrrrrrr Oh he is!
He is still ticked off that President Trump didn’t jump on GAB at the beginning.
Big Brains don’t always play well together. See Andrew Torba vs. Vox Day.
Rather than indulging in Ego Wars, Trump is doing the right thing by creating his own platform.
Hasn’t banned Vox Day now has he.
No, he hasn’t. Vox just left in a huff after a monumental piss fight with Andrew. He’s been seen lately (Google shut down his blog), but doesn’t have much to say.
I like both men, but they never should have taken this fight public.
Vox is posting on GAB. I value Beale’s insight yet his hate for “boomers” distorts his mind IMO.
I guess when his son-in-law thought Torba had to pay for Trump’s followers it did not sit well with him. I get that.
But his continual obsession about what was purely a proposed business deal that was going to screw Torba is so over the top I blocked him.
Why? Competition is a good thing. The more alternative platforms out there, the more trouble big tech will have controlling them.
And the more fragmentation will dilute their influence.
So far it seems to be he thinks they are going about it the wrong way by depending on other companies that they can only currently trust, and the future is unknown. Gab is the only large social entity that is completely independent.
“These are not easy challenges to overcome.”
No, but thank God they are trying!
Engineers solve problems. Good Engineers are always looking for that “Dragon” to slay. Almost tunnel vision at times just kill this beast, make the “Customer” smile, utter a nerdy “Aw Shucks ’tweren’t nutin'” and move on to the next hopefully bigger problem. Just the nature of us who have pursued that route in life.
Executives find problems and delegate their solution to others. Good executives find the problems early, delegate their solution to good problem solvers and move on. Always looking at the forest, the Executive can ignore the trees, they are just the details the problem solvers will knock down on his quest for that “Customer smile”.
Me thinks Executive Trump has selected a “Good Problem Solver” and soon many of us “Customers” will be smiling! Mr. Nunes, you have some trees to knock down! Let the Boss know if you need help.
I agree with this. The problems I solved in my software days were tiny compared to what the really heavy lifters were doing.
But each one solved felt like having climbed Kilimanjaro. Truly a rush of accomplishment.
I’m sure Nunes has some problem-solving-addicts working on it all.
True this! I changed jobs 35 times in 35 years back when that wasn’t done. I was a problem solver. A mountain climber. I told every employer I don’t do boring. After killing all the dragons the boss would give something routine and at that point I moved on.
DWAC stock went down again today.
It’s on sale.
Yeh…I should have waited for the sale, rather than paying retail! Should I average?
Dan, everything over $10.00, became retail. We had a fellow treeper who announced that he had bought DWAC under $10.00. Two(2) days after we got our news, DWAC hit its HIGH of $175.00! Trading paused many times that day.
My personal thought on purchasing a stock is, “Do not buy any stock (in any form of purchase) that you would not willingly buy at twice its price.”
I suspect the entire market is going down; heading for a severe recession. Common sense
dictates that. The economy cannot sustain high inflation and an inept Fed.
Interest rates near zero during Obama’s 8 years, 3-4 increases during President
Trump’s 4 years and none to itty bitty increases thus far in Joebama’s term.
I purchased DWAC for $13.00 and will purchase more when the
price reduces further.
The Stock Market has basically been in a Bear Market since January 3rd. We have seen significant rallies; however, they are typical Bear Market rallies to a consistent resistant and normal retracement ceiling.
Wall street is highly manipulated and often the present Stock Market price does not reflect the reality of present or future conditions.
We bought it $40 on 11/23/21 and sold two weeks later at $58.55. Made 45%
Bought (IPO) @ $12.73… then sold half about 1 week later… Made a nice piece of change… However, on April 15, 2022, our *corrupt gov’t* will take most of my “nice piece of change”… (:(:
Great advice!!!
I signed up in February and my waitlist number is 559412, and this number has not changed in 2 months and still not on the platform. Unacceptable really and not impressed.
“People who want alternative free speech platforms, and yet simultaneously criticize the time it takes to get these systems up and running, most certainly do not understand the scale of the technical challenges and issues.”
Especially when they are being attacked from every angle by the alphabet agencies and globalist
And a host of hired (yes, I’l say that) trolls on every right-side web site with a constant drumbeat of “done with Trump.”
Not saying this particular commenter – that cannot be known. But they are particularly obvious on Citizen Free Press where I look daily for news tidbits. Any Trump headline brings the cockroaches scurrying out of the woodwork.
Yep, the doctrinaire leftists really are obsessive, relentless little sociopaths.
lol
No, they are just jerks; jerking us around with their negative comments.
Thou shalt not winge !
LOL…You read my mind Mungrel!
It doesn’t countdown. Just one day you’ll be in.
That’s odd. Have you actually tried the app lately? My sister was like 694,000 and she got in over a week ago. She was waiting but then tried it and bingo, she was prompted to setup her account and was online in minutes.
I was 100,670 and been in for 2 weeks. I probably could have been in sooner but wasn’t checking in every day, thinking I’d be notified. You have to actively try it every day.
How’s that work? I’m 630,ooo+ and still on the waitlist.
You have re-tried the app and nothing happens, only the wait number showing?
Also make sure you have installed the latest update from the App Store.
Then, keep checking back daily.
I was over 1M and would check the app once a week and one day BAM I got in.
I have been on the app for several weeks.
Keep trying.
Good to know. I’m in the 500K range, just checked, still nothing.
Doesn’t bother me at all. What will be will be.
With an attitude like that, they dont need nor want you.
That’s funny I don’t care who you are 😂
At least you got a number…forgot password used…and waiting response for new one for 2 months.
Same for my son he keeps sending for Password reset and
gets nothing..
And your treatment on twatter is acceptable?
I’m closer to 1.5 million than 1 million. I’m patient, because once the site is launched, We will all be on within a couple of days. I know nothing of how this process works, but I figure it happens pretty quickly.
The number doesn’t ever change. One day you are not on, then you are.
So go build your own.
I always laugh at people who complain about free stuff not being up to their standards.
Well then, “scout” around for something better or start your own social media platform that is
iron clad (as much as it can be) against big tech and government shutdown of conservative thought.
Except nowadays that’s like saying, if i don’t like you then I’ll cut off the electricity to your house…. If you don’t like it, then go build your own power plant. You can use the pick-axe in my basement. 🙂
Well you can always go back to the deep state ‘big tech’s platforms instead.
You do realize that, Google, twit, meta, Microsoft, etc, are and have always been deep state / intel operations,
Or did you really buy into all the bullshit background stories of how they became ?
Your number will probably never change. I was 244,437, and it remained like that until I was notified I could get on. I made it on in early March. The rollout may be slow, but the platform has been glitch-free as far as I’m concerned. Very well done.
“I’m not impressed”.
Believing TS is just another consumer product could explain spoiled tween petulance.
In reality, TS is a weapon system to help us win our current survival war with the worlds humanity despising psychopaths.
Control the media, you control the soft totalitarian “Democracy”. The mass murdering dictator Robert Mugabe, beloved by the liberals, held power for over 35 years via “democracy” which also destroyed the country
Over 90% of all US Media is controlled by 6 companies. If you control these – you can virtually control “democracy”.
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/over-90-of-all-us-media-is-controlled-by-6-companies-if-you-control-these-you-can-virtually-control-democracy/
Burn it all down, bust up what’s left, redistribute their ill gotten wealth fixing what they f*cked !
And the Fed Gov has regulations which cover this, which are based on laws that are on the books.
As these companies began buying up more media, they just raised the limits, on what was allowed.
And CONGRESS was fine with that. Just as they effectively blocked any change to the laws regarding Inet providers from liability for 3rd party content.
Just as Congress (Uniparty) has had no problem with how the Public Education system has become the Leftist indoctrination system.
Congress is the center of the problem with the Swamp, and the Uniparty Rinos are at the very center.
Purge them, and the Dems are nothing. Purge the Rinos, have a Congress representing US, and ALL is possible.
Fail to do so, and NOTHING is possible.
Purge the Dems , and the Rino are nothing.
Dutch, there you go with that common sense thing again! 😉
Been waiting to get on since Feb. 21. My number is 201,000+. People have gotten on with numbers higher than mine.
Try closing and re-opening the app….daily… until it goes past the opening screen and asks you to setup your account details.
Just did that and now I’m further down the waiting list, lol, 1,500, 675. Oh well…
Oops. If indeed they open up web access it won’t matter.
Took me a long time to finally get on also. At this point it’s kind of like getting a pick up game of baseball going, but I feel will still be worth the wait. Networking security is one of the biggest obstacles that has to be addressed. (see 2020 election) As Sundance alludes to, there are many i’s to be dotted and t’s to be crossed. Conservatives should understand better than anyone, that we must be judicious in our new ventures. Keep the faith, as I found, it will finally happen! 😉
I have the Apple app, too. I still can’t get on – my number is 439,090. I have been waiting since early February. But I don’t mind too much, if it turns out to be all I hope it is. I loved Facebook at first, in the early years i could freely post my opinions, post personal pictures, and keep up with family and old friends around the country. Then when I saw in 2014 how controlled by Zuckerburg it was, how they could even use MY pictures, i got out.
I will wait patiently for President Trumps social media.
As I understand it, this is not like waiting in line with a number at the deli. No matter how large your number, you could get in at any moment.
I only have android devices, so I don’t even have a number yet. That’s okay. I’ll get in eventually. In the meantime, I delight to see so many like-minded people wanting to be a part of Truth Social. 🙂
Where’s Facebook’s “warehouse sized server bank” ?
That’s one he’ll of a juicy mission !
Zuckerberg is building a HUGE facility in Kuna, Idaho. I haven’t followed closely, but the water requirements alone have people up in arms, as Idaho has a high desert climate and water is precious.
There’s a large scale crypto bank operation with Chinese backing being built in Ione Washington, which is in the far NE part of the state. The power requirements for this operation were estimated to be roughly the same as a city of 50k people.
Usk Wa. Not Ione. Allrise is converting a newsprint paper ( Ponderay Newsprint) plant to a crypto mining operation.
https://popud.org/top-links/community-and-resources/ponderay-newsprint-updates-and-information/
How’s all this sit with the dumb-ass Greenies?
Crime pays for sure.
One can’t get a plastic drinking straw or a plastic market bag in California, but those pushing this b.s. down people’s throats, have a different set of values for their $$$$$$$ loaded pals’ projects, like eagle slaughtering wind generators & earth broiling solar farms that kill everything beneath them.
….and yet they do not want to look at the aftermath of the mining on the Earth or in the case of the DRC the children…..Rare Earth Metals are not that rare…they just occur in small concentrations and take toxic processes to extract them from the ore…..we had sites in CA and MT gearing up to start mining but Slo Joe has shut them down…can’t be cutting into his chums in PRC’s market share now can we?
What you do is go to a renewable energy provider like Green Mountain, and on paper you are now a green operation. Ignore that GrMt is itself going to paper REC markets and buying paper offsets that “net zero” power production.
What is really going on is states are heavily subsidizing renewable buildout with federal grants, the renewables overbuild in remote areas like IA and OK and cause control issues for the local grid, the overseas developers like Iberdrola sell off for profit, then the resource operators sell to the REC markets and profit because of the publics demand to have ticketed green supply. So your bitcoin mining op or “data center” or whatever can load up to make virtual paper, consuming tons of energy and driving up demand for more and more renewables.
Every state should be attacking those (Nestle Swiss owned) who make billions pumping our local water in almost every state.
Miss the old Idaho intolerance of oligarchy.
The Industrial evap footprint must be “Yuge”!
I think “seized” is the word you weee thinking of
I’m in!
More Parallelism .
Ace: “The threat Musk poses to The Regime is “existential.” One cannot help but notice that The Regime is obsessed with silencing critics of The Regime — what would The Regime do if everyone was allowed to speak against it, and be heard speaking against it?
One Panic after another, one Crisis after another.
They will not let the Panics end or the Crises stop because the second they give us a chance to catch our breath and think about the scope of their failures, betrayals, and treasons, we’ll strip the very bark off them.”
I hope the duly re-elected President succeeds.
Putin is a risk to the Davos Cabal regime.
You can see how far those pendejos go… how crazy they get, desperate indeed.
I signed up at least five or six weeks ago and my place in queue was at the time and still is 513,618.
Tick-tock.
One more time. The number does not change. It is a one time reference. Mine was 256 thousand something till the day I got in.
Thank you for your insight and knowledge Bob, but I personally know of two people that signed up, received their ‘wait’ number, had their number drop over a shorter period of time than what I am experiencing, and now have access to the platform.
So? Good for them! Remember, life isn’t fair (but it’s good).
Everything memorable in life includes a period of exquisite anticipation.
How interesting to encounter petulant armchairs demanding that TS provide instant gratification and a McDonald meal rather than a feast.
Honestly this article really puts into perspective just how fantastically impressive the Treehouse is, especially with how quickly everything was migrated from WP, how soon all the features were returned/rolled out/added, and how bug-free it’s been. Massive kudos.
I remember all the work it took for SD and his team to migrate everything over to where it’s at now. The admins, God bless them, were so patient with us. I can only imagine the amount of drinking they contemplated doing through that process.
(Contemplated??? 😀 )
Sometimes even too much to drink isn’t enough.
One of Australia’s greatest writer’s Henry Lawson,
“Drink makes you think how you should think when you don’t drink”.
Ad rem just so you know there were some serious prayers for you and Sundance back then glad you all made it through
R.D.
Believe me, they were felt RED DOG. ❤️ None of y’all will ever know how hard SD worked and prayed for this site…..he never complains.
most of the regulars I thought anyway were very patient and understanding after they tried to shut down THIS marketplace of ideas
I agree Kroesus, I knew SD would do everything he could to keep things going and wasn’t in a position to explain every detail (nor should he have). I could only be patient and show my support by continually checking in and participating the best we could.
These comments remind me sitting in morning meeting with other Fire Captains talking about the database my engineer built to do our case reports. When I got to the team I helped him out, it would stay up until 1am countless nights (while others were playing video games or watching movies) working to make it better and fix bugs (we were using Access). There were always complaints, but no one every did anything to help.
My favorite is: “Can’t we just……” – yeah we could if we were professional programmers with better resources!!! I remember the database crashing and we couldn’t open it. All that hard work and date gone…….but then I found (after hours of both of us searching the web and trying to fix things we thought broke it) that Access databases, at that time anyway, could only have 1.99 GB of data. We had to split some backends up and voila, it worked.
I can only imagine the scale of trying to build something millions of people are going to use at the same time. There are unforeseen problems, even for the professionals, that hinder expectations and move goal lines.
Everyone benefits from sites like this, YouTube, Twitter, FaceBook, Instagram, Shopify, Netflix, etc but don’t realize the amount of work that goes on in the background into keeping things running smoothly. They simply expect to sign-in and it work, yet get raging mad when things are working perfectly.
For the most part, sites and technology are stable. I remember DirecTV advertising 99.9% up-time. My farther-in-law would get mad when a thunderstorm would block the signal for a few minutes and completely forget about the hours of weekly down time they had with MediaComm, the whole reason they switched. Well, 365 days x 24 hours x 60 minutes = 525,600 minutes in a year. 99.9% of those minutes is 525,074 or an advertised downtime of 526 minutes, just over 8 hours a year.
We live in an age where almost anything we want is at our finger tips. Instead of getting mad that something is down, we need to remember how blessed we are and go do any of the other endless things we have access to.
Extend your deadlines so you’re not always stressed. Just because you have 2 weeks to do something that will take a few hours, don’t wait until the last two hours and then stress out when it doesn’t go perfectly. You had plenty of time however you chose to make it an emergency when things aren’t perfect. That goes for turning in a school assignment, a work assignment, paying a bill, sending of an application, etc.
Long rant to say, we all need to relax a little and enjoy life. We create our own stress. Also, show appreciation for those that create and build things you use and have now come to expect/demand work every instant you would like to use them.
You mean he never complains about work. He complains all the time about you know what. And we love ❤️ him for it 😂👍
Ad rem that made me laugh out loud!!
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅
“Truth Social is America’s “Big Tent” social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology.”
O’Sullivan’s Law, anyone?
We’re not going to win by trying to beat Liberals at their own game. We will only win by offering people safe passage to our side of the divide where they can live and breathe freely knowing that we’re keeping out the Progs, and are actively hunting them down on the platform and expelling them.
The conservative answer to Liberalism is “F$$k you, get out. Never come back.”
A safe space. You’re advocating for an intellectual safe space. The same feature of so many campuses that draws such derision here on the Treehouse.
You lose because you play the Left’s game by the Left’s rules.
You’re why Mitt Romney isn’t out of politics.
This website you’re commenting on is HEAVILY moderated and HEAVILY defended.
Because they know who their enemies are.
You can fling baseless personal attacks all you want. Doesn’t change the truth, and the truth is, you’re advocating for an echo chamber, a safe space, a platform where you won’t be exposed to dissent. The same exact thing that draws so much derision and contempt here on the Treehouse.
Can’t have it both ways. You’re either for free speech, or you’re for only speech that agrees with you – tyranny. And your original comment advocates for the latter.
If it becomes degraded like so many platforms with nasty people choking the conversations to death, how will Truth Social succeed? I hope there’s a plan and an answer for that.
Sundance and crew have been very successful with CTH and keeping up the quality of the posters who read and comment. That requires no small effort and a lot of diligence on CTH for their part. Not a piece of cake.
Every site like this must be curated for the same reason you protect your home from termites.
No matter how you go about it someone is gonna be pissed.
If the leftists are pissed I call that feature not bug.
What Truth Social should focus on is going after bots and potentially shills and paid trolls. Everything else will can be filtered out on the user end.
At the end of the day of the platform takes off it’ll be the place to be and “the left” will tire of huffing their own farts and eating their own and will start to migrate over. That’ll be the sign that you’re doing something right.
“What Truth Social should focus on is going after bots and shills”.
Verb tense correction: “What Truth Social IS FOCUSED on”. 😘
CTH doesn’t advertise itself as wanting to hear all sides. They clearly say who they are and what they believe in. If you agree, you’re in. If you don’t, and you act like a typical prog, you’re gone.
You’re exactly right.
Our adversaries are Death Cultists.
Liberals =/= Leftists.
Labels are created and encouraged by the Death Cult. Why? Those labels keep us divided and fighting amongst ourselves. Divided we are too distracted and weak to deal with the real source of our problems; the Death Cultists.
Thank God Gandalf Trump is uniting real life elves, humans, dwarves, hobbits and assorted quirks into an anti sauron and orcs alliance.
Come together and hang together or lose and hang seperately.
If they stick with that ridiculously liberal mission statement, the site will be infested by Progs.
They need to run it like CTH with an unapologetic “GTFO” attitude towards Liberals.
You’ll be amazed how many people just want someplace where crazy liberals are thrown out.
I’m glad for the update! I’ve been wondering what the deal was. Most of my family have iPhones and are already on it. My husband and I are android users, so we’re not. I was beginning to wonder if truth social was doing a deal with Apple. I’m happy to hear they plan to keep it truthful.
Gab is running, has a Christian CEO, is not run by a RINO grifter, and has many satisfied users.
It is notable that Gab is not allowed on mobile platforms (controlled by Google and Apple, the enemy, who hate you and everything you stand for) but Truth Social is allowed on those platforms.
The “need to be clean” is outweighing all sense for many people. Truth Social will fail because Trump surrounds himself with grifters and enemies.
Yep
Everyone is building their own social media islands. The real problem is that Google, Facebook and Twitter long ago colluded to co-opt and block all industry standard efforts that would ensure open interchange of social media data, and a competitive market for apps.
e.g. Should be no reason a tweet cannot be viewed, shared or replied to via Gab – or any other combinations.
well if you look at the protocols, PRC has a different one than the West and Russia is being forced onto that system…India may decide to cooperate even more by joining their etherpsace
Utter bollocks. The protocol standards exist. Multiple such protocol standards exist. But for fairly obvious reasons, no one aside from open source ideologues implements them.
(Those obvious reasons being rewriting your entire API surface for the express purpose of allowing people not to use the platform you’ve spent billions building so you can sell them advertising is suicidally stupid)
You’re magic 8 ball or you just shillin’ for Torba?
I’m thankful for Gab, but it definitely isn’t perfect. At least it’s not censorsing everyone though.
If someone thinks that Jews are the cause of all the worlds problems, then GAB is the place is definitely the place to go
Gab has a mobile app, it just isn’t in the Google or Apple app stores. There are instructions on how to install it in Gab’s help pages.
I should add it’s basically the mobile version of the website, you don’t compromise your phone to run it.
Who is the RINO grifter you refer ? Surely not Nunes.
RINO and gRiFtEr are bait words used to trigger emotional poisons.
Emotional poisons affect the brain just like booze does.
Both emo and booze impaired people are easier to manipulate and deceive.
Drumpf “surrounds himself with gRifTeRs and eNeMiEs”. ” Truth Social will fail” because Drumpf associates with impures.
Armchair pharisees apparently dont take Christs words seriously.
Hopefully these sauls will become pauls before they run out of presents.
Tick tock. 😘
Has to be a browser based option. A lynchpin of the Google(Android) and Apple platform monopolies is their absolute control of application interfaces and the app stores.
When Gates tried to control the Windows application interfaces – he was slammed with antitrust. That pendulum sure has swung the other way and is firmly stuck in the wall.
“Has to be a browser based option”.
Verb tense correction: There ” WILL BE a browser based option”. ETA a few months.
Source: The two interviews linked above by Sundance.
According to long established CTH guidelines, opiners are expected to listen to and reflect on what Sundance shares BEFORE offering an armchair opine.
Obviously they don’t get it. Look what happened to Gab when they launched their app on the Apple and Amdrod store. As soon as they decide they don’t like what you say your gone. No thanks I don’t need truth social. Gab has already done the heavy lifting. I’ll stay there.
You can download apps outside of Apple and Google app markets.
It works just fine doing so.
I use Gettr as a web site, not through an app. Works fine.
“Ill stay there”. And yet you’re here being a Gab simp shilling distractions and divisions.
” No thanks”.
Hopefully Wheens weans himself from his destructive pass time or job before he runs out of presents.
This is exciting; not being a smart phone aficionado have been hoping for word a web based access will be happening; and had no idea the extent of what they are having to go through to make sure Truth Social is secure from intruding thought police takedowns, keeping up with the latest technologies, and still find a way to cover costs.
That’s President Trump though – Think Big, Do Big Things!
Also good insight into what Sundance and crew have had to go through to keep this site up and active. This has to be a work of God, the Holy Spirit and a lot of sweat equity too.
“Their server banks will need to expand in scale and speed, likely to end up filling buildings the size of airports with hardware. ”
Expansion will not be easy if there are chip/hardware shortages.
Trust me when I say, the web-app approach is crucial.
They need to invest now in teaching their user base how to “install Truth Social” as an app on your phone and desktop rather than be stuck with the app which they’re going to try to delete from the app store the moment Trump sends out a truth about the 2020 election.
Alex Jones’ Banned.Video has an “Install App” link on their website which takes you to this video where Alex walks you through adding Banned.Video to your phone’s home screen.
IMO this is the best absolute way around the big tech tyrants, and it works in all (Brave) browsers and would be almost impossible for big tech to stop them – especially if they don’t use Big Tech for hosting.
https://banned.video/watch?id=5e30b18752f35800179d840c
Down the road I’d like to see a liberty Linux distro, and a web app store focusing on decentralized free speech apps and services.
Yes – along with a properly governed open standards project (e.g. OASIS) for social media interchange & notification, along with a strategic open source project (e.g. Eclipse) for core components. This will take major players to ensure the projects attack the stranglehold held by BigTech’s fascist monopolies.
Both wonderful ideas!
My EDC is a flipfone. I also have a Pinephone running PMOS. Never be a Linux app which is OK once they get desktop access up.
As noted many times here already if you get an app thru google or apple you are at their mercy.
I choose not to bare my throat if I can avoid it.
Mark my words! Apple is getting ready to cancel the Truth app. Won’t be long.
“Apple is getting ready to cancel the Truth app. It wOnt bE lOnG”.
Arm chair chicken littles inspire chuckles. Do they serious imagine they know something Trumps Team hasn’t know about for YEARS and prepped for?
Hopefully these armchair doomers will choose to fret post less and instead decide to pray and do more to help President Trump Save America.
I believe when Truth Social gets full-strength, it’s going to be a “multi-use, multi-media platform like no one’s seen.
People are gonna get impatient… I am too actually, but what TS is doing is tantamount to building a bigger house than the enemy—and building it in the enemy’s front yard. LOL
Keep the faith
CHT already did that.
“CHT already did that”.
Hopefully after rereading Joes comment and those made by Sundance you realize that the word NOT needed to be added to make your statement accurate.
BTW. Love Your Site!!! Thanks for being a rock in the middle of the woke highway!!!!
one big solar flare and we’re back to the ‘which is the best yellow pages’ dilemma.
…. in the meantime just pony up and buy 9% of twitter.
ps.. tip the host
I tried to join truth thru apple app weeks ago.. Cant get on.. stuck at # 235,698 to be accepted!! ha. well see how it goes.
Ay, Direct TV canned OAN.
I got my Tablo and my Rokus, now all I need is the antenna to get here so I can reconfigure the whole thing. I want a PVR for the stuff that my wife watches, which is all on OTA here in SoCal.
Great way to go, we’ve been doing it since roku launched.
Build her a mythTV box! I have one with 7TB of storage LOL. OTA is the highest resolution going. I could if there were a need record 8 OTA channels simultaneously. Any ‘puter less than 10 yrs old will most likely work.
technical question:
given that servers and responses are expensive and power hungry, are any of CHT, Gab, or Truth Social using Tor? is there enough processing power avialabe on distributed networks? or does Tor only encrypt the communication link?
Seems like there ought to be a way to not only encrypt the comms but to use the reserve processing power of a gazillion machines to keep the interface up to the second, sort of like the 90s version of music file sharing, or the SETI project…..or even cryptomining. Just have to keep it from prying eyes.
It might be the parallel processing everyone talks about but no one does because they always buy server farms. I donna’ know.
It’s a naive set of questions, but I’ll be happy to be educated by the comments.
AFAIK, TOR only encrypts and anonymizes communications. No shared processing.
Thank you.
I signed up the very first day, within a few hours of the launch. I am still at the same waitlist number as that day. (Over 200k) My husband signed up about an hour or so after me and he is at 800k. Neither of us has moved since then. What is the point?
“Neither of us has moved since then.” No one moves up in line.
This is not a deli. You aren’t standing in line waiting for your number to give you your turn. If you have a number, any number, you could get in at any moment or have a long wait.
Waaaaaaahh why do I have to wait for a month for what I want right now!!!!! 😘
We are in a world wide war with humanity despising psychopaths. After waking up from the psychopaths trance and starting to see reality answering the question “what’s the point” will be easy.
As a bonus, petulant impatience will be replaced by gratitude and excitement.
I signed up awhile back, and got a message saying I was on some kind of waiting list. It gave me a number, I think somewhere around 100K. Fine, I’ll gladly wait till they get all the kinks worked out. But one weird thing is that I’m constantly getting text messages saying things like “Why haven’t you told us what you want your username to be yet?” The thing is… I HAVE, back when I initially signed up. So I’m wondering if this is just a generic promo type message (sort of like the fundraising ones that don’t seem to use your actual history details), or if I should worry that I really am NOT correctly registered? Anyone else having this issue?
(Edit: I just checked and my number is actually ~270K, higher than I remembered. And since I didn’t bother to write it down at the time, I don’t know if it’s moved any since then.)
My Apple based phone/app is still not up and running, while friends that signed up weeks after me are now using the app. Hopefully they sort out the bugs soon.
Apple may rule with teens in the USA, but most of the world is Android.
What is most needed now would be for say Truth Social, Gab and Rumble create their own app store.
Rumble and Gab have grown tremendously.
These three new social networks are the key reason a new Control Agent, Elon Musk is being brought into Twitter.
US Gov and Intel is worried about Twitter’s loss of credibility and the growth of free speech outlets and put Musk in to try to give Twitter a more honest look.
“What is most needed now”.
More armchair fret posters offer advice and fearful guesses.
God bless those who choose to use their present to inspire excitement, optimism and hope.
This Canadian trucker protester guy Chris Sky put up a new social network overnight.
https://friendevu.com/
Apparently anti vaxxers and truckers are smarter than the brilliant expertise Trump is getting.
and how many users can they handle?
Another ankle biting armchair criticizes our inspiring and courageous doer, President Trump. What a shock. 😂😂😂
Teddy Roosevelt’s famous speech, ‘Man in the Arena’ rebukes these armchair critics while praising transformative doers like Trump.
Hopefully more armchairs will find the courage to join President Trump and millions of other courageous doers in the arena.
“I don’t like this…, I don’t like that…, I don’t like this…. ”….This is not a restaurant review. The game has been leveraged so you can’t win. Taking time to cover the bases is the cost so it doesn’t fold. BTW, I have my app as I preordered. Patience, calm, and trust is needed. Never, and mean never count out Trump or Nunes.
This is like the one star review because the box the product was in had a dent or tear from UPS!
I’m on the waiting list, # 1,4**,***. Waiting…
“… they are quickly going to have to figure out how to generate revenue. ”
Why should the platform be offered free to users?
Ads are annoying and are viewed as clutter.
Subscription or membership-based programs at an annual fee.
I just paid $5 to watch the Rigged movie, and it was very good.
Cheap at any price.
The importance of this cannot be overstated.
Online payment processing is one area where I desperately wish some wealthy power player (Musk,
Trump, Thiel or such) would step up and make use of the opportunity.
Remember Operation Chokepoint, where the fedgov tried to threaten and harass banks into cutting off credit lines to gun dealers? Or how every online CC processor has refused to do business with Gab due to the woke mob & oligarchs?
This is a keystone of the parallel economy, and potentially very profitable, though risky.
Credit card processing whether brick and mortar or online is controlled by government regulations and
banks. The cardholder has a bank behind their credit card and the processing companies have banks that
fund the monies to merchants.
Do you recall the crash of 2008/2009? The feds forced the banks to make loans to undeserving customers
who couldn’t pay back the loans.
Great post. I am on TS just waiting for more to join. : ))
I am wondering how many Treepers are actually on Truth Social at this time?
I finally got on…
I’m still somewhere around 250,000 on the waitlist. When will the app be ready?
I don’t think asking here will bring you that answer.
Gab has already succeeded. Why “Truth” Social?
Because its Trump.
Yeah, baby. 🙂
Noticing your use of quotations around the word Truth.
As Christ pointed out when He was questioned by the piety policing pharisees, not all questions are sincere.
When sincere, you will seek and you will find.
I remember the beginning of FB only because my daughter was in college at the time and showed it to me. But it seemed to be just something for college kids to connect with each other. I don’t know the exact year that FB started but she was in college in 2000.
So even though I am somewhere around a million and a half back in the Truth Social line, I’m sure it will let me in soon. It is a very popular site from the get-go. It isn’t starting small and building up. At least that’s how I see it.
And of course, you have to add in the obstacles that the tech tyrants will throw into the mix.
FB was originally a concept to connect Harvard students with one another that Zuckerburg stole from its creators when they hired him to program a more efficient code to operate the service….with CIA seed money it went national and then international…what a scam…..you get people to voluntarily hand you over their personal information and then allow you to track their internet activity….you get to then market this data or analyze it for even more useful economic uses
From a marketing data capture standpoint, it was brilliant. However, what they have done with the data beyond marketing is the scam (both unethical within the industry and criminal violations of data privacy laws). However, with a criminal FTC, FBI and DOJ, what difference do criminal violations of data privacy laws mean? Not a thing.
My space was before FB?
Facebook’s backstory isn’t true. It’s LifeLog rebranded.
There are things that happen easily with new startups that aren’t very good. And thanks for customers’ consistency in choosing MS over competitors these bad things have become standard in the software industry.
Overpromise, underdeliver, do so years late, call mistakes ‘features’, garbage like that. These things are in no means limited to ‘tech’. But they are rife in ‘tech’.
It is often hard to know if the ‘experts’ are themselves ignorant, or if the ‘bosses’ are imposing their unrealistic vision on the ‘experts’. Either way, the customers only hear false promise after false promise. And the customers are justifiably upset.
Companies that find themselves in this position are taking massive public relations damage. And it is their fault.
Attacking somebody who has essentially been defrauded and who is complaining about it is frankly despicable. Yet some of us are doing so.
Why do so, when you don’t have a dog in this hunt? You are putting your good name in the hands of Devin Nunes and Company.
HEAR the contradictions coming out of Nunes’ mouth. ‘fastest-growing’ or ‘slow and methodical’?
SEE the unmet delivery dates. When they rolled it out it was to be fully operational by the end of March.
When the top experts flee, REALIZE that there are significant problems under the hood.
It wasn’t that long ago that Nunes was bragging about the growth in the approval rate. Thousands an hour. Working 24/7. There are 168 hours each week. If true, that is 336,000+ approvals a week. Even if he was fudging it, best rate yet, at the highest staff load during the day with varying staff loads at night and weekends, they should be pushing out 100,000+ approvals each week.
Maybe that is why there are fewer people complaining who are 100,000-200,000 on the list and more people complaining who are 500,000-600,000 on the list. These people would be approved already if it were the higher number claimed by Nunes.
People who promise and fail to deliver, and who do so consistently will normally fail. (MS being the glaring exception that made this misbehavior in tech standard.) Eventually delivering may be too late. Overcoming this self-inflicted wound is very difficult.
It will be great to be fully operational soon. It will be great to expand to Android and to expand to web-based usage. Realize that those expansions will only add to the approval backlog. There are about 30 weeks until midterms. Only adding 100,000 users per week isn’t good enough to make a difference in those elections. (Or even in the 2024 elections.)
At this rate, come November, we will be hearing complaints from people who are number 4,000,000 on the list. Who knows what Truth Social needs to be financially successful? But they need to be able to give back Trump his 80,000,000 followers and to make that happen sooner rather than later.
Twitter claims around 400,000,000 users. Truth Social needs to beat Twitter before the 2024 elections. A million new users a day for two years will make 730,000,000 which would likely exceed whatever Twitter has grown into or sunk down to in two years. 40,000 approvals each and every hour would almost reach that number. But would you wait 2 years to get on? NO!
If Nunes could do that, there wouldn’t be complaints from small numbers like 500,000. And people would be eagerly joining, not leaving in disappointment. But that eagerness would still drive complaints. “I’m #50,000,000 just how long do I have to wait?”. It would be wonderful hearing “I’m #40,000,000 and it only took them a month to approve me. You should be approved in a week or two.” as an encouraging response.
Nunes needs to get his head around numbers like that to truly compete with Twitter. And he needs to make that happen before the rug gets pulled out from under his feet. Maybe the numbers for financial success are different. But the community goals of competing with Twitter and allowing conservatives a voice need those numbers.
Exponentially growing equipment needs will guarantee financial failure if you grow too fast. Labor intensive approval is a cost that is also very limiting on growth. Nunes needs to quit with the pie in the sky song and dance and start telling it as it is. And he needs to start delivering on his promises.
Sundances links inspired an armchair to pretend to be Devins boss then create and share his wordy fantasy.
Since each present may be the last, its puzzling when people choose to use that present fantasizing and offering idle criticisms of others, especially since humanity despising psychopaths are focused on ushering in an inescapable Reign of Terror.
“These are not easy challenges to overcome.”
Building real estate in Manhattan isn’t easy either. Becoming POTUS from the outside is “impossible”. Conducting one of the most successful Administrations in US history while being hounded by weaponized government agencies here and abroad should be enough to break any mortal financially, spiritually, mentally and physically. Yet here he is, in true Chesty Puller and George Patton tradition, assembling and leading a team to challenge the mighty High Tech Social Media Giants. To breach their oppressive censorship wall, buttressed by the 4th branch of government, and return the Constitutionally guaranteed Rights of uncensored Free Speech and Liberty to the American People.
Thank you, President Trump and CEO Nunez, for your tenacity and leadership. Sundance, they got this whatever it takes.
I am sure these initiatives along with the political initiatives supporting “America First” candidates are not going unnoticed by the opposition. Nor the suspension of investigation and prosecution of the Trump Business Organization by the NYC District Attorney/US Attorney or the recent filing by Trump legal team against the Russia Hoax mob. Almost looks like someone read some Alinsky (“Overload the opposition”)!
And… there is the political reality of our current President’s capital failing so precipitously members of his own party and his supporting media are starting to back away. The insurance policy of backing a figurehead senile president with a totally incompetent Vice President, a power motivated/disliked Speaker of the House and feckless Cabinet don’t leave the Progressives (i.e. Democrats if you will) many palatable/politically workable alternatives.
Aww well, maybe these are just the incoherent ramblings of a tired old curmudgeon on the early April morning. But like a wise old leader once said, “We shall see!” Yes, Mr. President, we shall see!
President Trump may be the most skillful practioneer of Alinskys Rules for Radicals ever.
As General Patton said after defeating Romney “I read your books, you bastard”.
I hope that get a start pretty soon.I’m waiting,
A good idea would be to approach GAB for advice and input.
They have overcome all of these issues.
😂😂😂
Excellent overview and explanation, thanks.
BTW…who owns the “roads and traffic control”?
At the outset I downloaded the app and created an account and I have been #483167 in line for access for 5-6 months. Not 8mpressed esp when I read that others are using it. The new web based platform is different? The same sign on? Why do I care?
Please let me know the website address to your social media alternative to FaceBook and Twitter. I’ll gladly sign-up and start using it today.
“People who want alternative free speech platforms, and yet simultaneously criticize the time it takes to get these systems up and running, most certainly do not understand the scale of the technical challenges and issues.”
“Why do I care” what a crabby stranger cares about other than to pray that God finds a way to heal them?
I appreciate that Truth Social needs to go step by step and be methodical in setting up a web based version and am happy to wait. I like the “big screen”.
I hope any and all viewpoints about issues will be on this site.
In other words, Truth Social hopes to achieve some fundamental features Gab has.
Totally underwhelming.
If the aim is to monetize Trump’s followers, I do not see how he will do it without acquiring an existing independent platform.
“Totally underwhelming”.
Apt description of posts made by energy vampires and joy assassins posing as Gabbies. Their continued efforts to push the Globalists demoralize, deceive, distract and divide psyops offer CNN tier amusement.
Besides the chuckles, I’m also thankful for the Intel they provide.
Those who coordinate these psyop attacks obviously still fear Trump and Truth Social bigly or they wouldn’t send their digital winged monkeys to attack post in every TS and/or Trump thread.
Are they foolishly scheming to foster a war with Gabbies so we forget our common foe; the Globalist Death Cult and fight each other? 😂😂
If so, there will be even more salty tears to mine when these schemes are dashed like so many others.
Muh Avenetti. Muh Mueller. Muh Cohen. Muh SDNY.
Seriously this time the wAlLs aRe cLoSiNg iN.
God bless RoadRunner Trump. Meep meep.
I believe it’s a mind boggling thing to build and maintain a server farm. I travel thru Alliance/Roanoke TX, and watched the massive Farsebook campus being constructed – seems like MILES of buildings.
I would subscribe and pay dues. How about buying selling Bonds? ( the way Texas Stadium was built) buy a bond, enjoy the game, get paid back…
Be patient, because Truth will be the only social media we will hear directly from President Trump. I was hoping it would be up-and-running before now, but it must be up for the presidential run by the end of this year.
And Canada is drafting a law ……