WorldTruth Social Networking Site

[Cosmos]

WorldTruth strikes me, as kind of a huge work for one person.
And very well done too, for just one person having done it respectively programmed it?

I dunno if I can believe Anthony Jordan and his supposed agenda for it.
But I guess we will see...

Anyway, I don't know much of this technical stuff, so I could be wrong with my scepticism of course...

 

[Renaissance]

WorldTruth strikes me, as kind of a huge work for one person.
And very well done too, for just one person having done it respectively programmed it?

I dunno if I can believe Anthony Jordan and his supposed agenda for it.
But I guess we will see...

Anyway, I don't know much of this technical stuff, so I could be wrong with my scepticism of course...

There are a handful of volunteers who also help run the site. From the "about" section:

http://www.worldtruth.org/about/

Staff Admins

CowboyTech
Patriot Grammy Mary
Natalie Lencioni
Rob Freedomfighter
Bobby Bain
Cozumel
Bo
Terry Motika
Grimnir Freeman
WorldTruth

World Truth recently posted this on a poll (which was in reply to Guardian):

http://www.worldtruth.org/poll/338/how-would-you-feel-about-an-affiliate-membership-program-on-worldtruth-org-to-pay-commissions-for-a/

World Truth: I spend 40+ hours a week searching for a worth-while job, and the other 40++ hours working on the site. Everyone who is staff is on the About Us page below. All of us are volunteers. None of us have conflicts of interest. We're just simple, everyday people who've had enough of the BS. If anyone wants to see our financials, I don't have the time to put them all together into a neat spreadsheet. I'll just show you the $17.32 I have in my checking, and the $.12 cents we have in our Paypal after paying the server fees. I'm always a TeamViewer or phone call away, 321.222.3556. We presently have two dimes, two pennies, and a ball of lint until the next server(s) fees are due in May.
Our server fees are $315 per month for the headliner monster dual Xeon 2620 machine, $185 per month for 3 (e3-1230v2 machines), and about $500 per month estimated for upgrades and fixes each month.
Most of the time, the very same volunteer staff members who live payday to payday, and a dozen dedicated Gold-Platinum members on the site donate to help us meet our expenses.
I will NEVER ACCEPT outside investments, because they want to influence our causes, our morals, and our ability to remain the safest social network in the world.
There's more wealth in the TRUTH, then there is in the riches of fiat currency. The world will realize this soon enough, but we are ahead of the curve, those of us on WT.

 

[Sirius]

It is not huge for one person. Their site is based on phpfox software, see: _http://www.phpfox.com/
I use also Firefox, exclusively, and it renders contents quite well.

Their HTML code is not clean, for example:

<?php require_once('./facebook/index.php'); ?>

Oh, what's that? Or broken attributes:

<meta name="keywords" content="solar lighting indoors, inside home solar lighting, clothes off women, homemade red hot sauceworldtruth,"world truth","seeking the truth","fusion centers","cia spies facebook","do not track plus", facebook,"where can I find the truth","ron paul libertarian",freedomwatch,"fox news lies","mainstream media lies","free social network","ad block facebook","twitter truth","safe social network","free social blogging",vaccinations,vaccines,"vaccine mercury","vaccine death","911 inside job","jfk assassination truth","mk ultra 2012","columbine","sandy hook","false flag ops"" />

And then some trailing backslashes are missing (needed for XHTML strict specs) on other places. However, this is not critical.

But that's not the worst problem they have. They have some fatal security leaks. Their site can be root-accessed through a back door right now.
Thus I am rather convinced, they are not bad Ptb who want your phone number and children's birthdays or something, driving black Mercedes.

 

[anart]

I will NEVER ACCEPT outside investments, because they want to influence our causes, our morals, and our ability to remain the safest social network in the world.

There are a lot of ads on the site, though...

 

[seek10]

WorldTruth strikes me, as kind of a huge work for one person.
And very well done too, for just one person having done it respectively programmed it?

I dunno if I can believe Anthony Jordan and his supposed agenda for it.
But I guess we will see...

Anyway, I don't know much of this technical stuff, so I could be wrong with my scepticism of course...

I have similar thoughts yesterday. he seems to be the founder, admin, this is his kind of job from"un employed", doing out of passion. These sounds reasonable, If there is open source software that works reasonably well gives that type of facebook like cool functionality. They have not had too many members at this point , so performance and complexity( money, dedicated support ) that comes with it may not be that big issue now.

from linkedin page

Anthony Jordan
President of WorldTruth.Org
Austin, Texas Area
Internet
Current WorldTruth.Org

Previous
Sprint Nextel,
Verizon Wireless

Education
Midstate College

Anthony Jordan's Overview. Current. President at WorldTruth.Org.
Past. District Manager at Sprint Nextel; Retail Sales Manager at Verizon Wireless. Education .

Usual expected fights with support guys here _http://pastebin.com/G4bB5xTv. As usual we will have to wait and see.

 

[Sirius]

I will NEVER ACCEPT outside investments, because they want to influence our causes, our morals, and our ability to remain the safest social network in the world.

There are a lot of ads on the site, though...

Exactly, also noticed that. So each page you visit, Google will know it, Facebook will know it (they have real Facebook integration, too), and further track and analyse your Internet activities. The whole SSL and "we do not track, do not collect" type of things and assertions are just fake security, nothing more. Their site is not secure.

I have similar thoughts yesterday. he seems to be the founder, admin, this is his kind of job from"un employed", doing out of passion. These sounds reasonable, If there is open source software that works reasonably well gives that type of facebook like cool functionality. They have not had too many members at this point , so performance and complexity( money, dedicated support ) that comes with it may not be that big issue now.

As already indicated, the script is commercially distributed. Look at the pricing table: _http://www.phpfox.com/pricing (not open source)
Unemployed does not mean unqualified. However, if a certain magnitude is achieved, the whole infrastructure must be financed somehow and money will not just fall from heaven, you know.

 

[seek10]

I have similar thoughts yesterday. he seems to be the founder, admin, this is his kind of job from"un employed", doing out of passion. These sounds reasonable, If there is open source software that works reasonably well gives that type of facebook like cool functionality. They have not had too many members at this point , so performance and complexity( money, dedicated support ) that comes with it may not be that big issue now.

As already indicated, the script is commercially distributed. Look at the pricing table: _http://www.phpfox.com/pricing (not open source)
Unemployed does not mean unqualified. However, if a certain magnitude is achieved, the whole infrastructure must be financed somehow and money will not just fall from heaven, you know.

I saw your post after I posting my post. Still it is cheap considering the features.

 

[Sirius]

I have similar thoughts yesterday. he seems to be the founder, admin, this is his kind of job from"un employed", doing out of passion. These sounds reasonable, If there is open source software that works reasonably well gives that type of facebook like cool functionality. They have not had too many members at this point , so performance and complexity( money, dedicated support ) that comes with it may not be that big issue now.

As already indicated, the script is commercially distributed. Look at the pricing table: _http://www.phpfox.com/pricing (not open source)
Unemployed does not mean unqualified. However, if a certain magnitude is achieved, the whole infrastructure must be financed somehow and money will not just fall from heaven, you know.

I saw your post after I posting my post. Still it is cheap considering the features.

Yes, the prices look fair so far.

 

[darksai]

I use PeerBlock and immediately on accessing the homepage there were several ping attempts by Comodo who are known to track data from their users and vague privacy policies almost as much as for their "security" software. Unless there are some serious explanations for this, I would rather stick to sites that are blatantly abusing their users' data than ones that claim vehemently that they aren't. Even if it just happens that they're using innocently using Comodo products, already that's an indication that the admin there are just as naive or lacking in knowledge of the facts as any other from another site with regards to protecting user privacy.

 

[Cosmos]

WorldTruth.org has 4 featured videos (featured by Anthony Jordan and/or the administrators of the website?)
and one of those featured videos is "THE WAYSEER MANIFESTO", wiched was discussed here: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,22489.0.html

 

[Sirius]

Thanks for the info. ;)

 

[Oxajil]

I think that via facebook (since it has so many users, because of its popularity) people may have a bigger chance in spreading the word more widely. As opposed to WorldTruth.

 

[Sirius]

I think that via facebook (since it has so many users, because of its popularity) people may have a bigger chance in spreading the word more widely. As opposed to WorldTruth.

Besides that, WT is just a small up to middle-sized community. You never have a guarantee that the door will not be shut due to technical or legal or financial or any other reason just overnight. Sites come and go a la good times, bad times.

 

[Guardian]

I remember how quickly Myspace went down the drain when Facebook came along, and I'm really hoping WT has a similar affect on FB.

I did a little digging and I think "Ant" is just an ordinary guy who's trying to make a difference, and a living...both of which I approve of, so I bought a membership as my little way of trying to offer support. I don't expect a free ride, or for anyone to work for nothing indefinitely, 'cause bacon ain't cheap. The ads, and hence google's ability to track my activity, also disappeared with the paid account.

Yeah, he's using pre-rolled software which no doubt has holes and will be a bit buggy now and again. So what? It's not like Facebook works flawlessly all the time

The government already has full access to our Internet accounts through our providers, so no skin off my nose if someone else is getting a look see? If I had something I didn't want the government to see, I'd bury it in a Mason jar in the woods, 'cause that's about the only way they wouldn't see it....and even that's iffy.

Will he keep to his promise not to censor activists, sell our data to the highest bidder, charge us to send posts to people who've "liked" our pages, etc.? I have no idea 'cause I don't know the man, but I'm certainly going to give him a chance. At least he's trying to DO something to offer an alternative to Facecrook.

He will either succeed and I'll be happy, or he'll fall flat, sell out, burn out, etc. and then I will support the next person who tries to create an uncensored Social Media outlet.

 

[Guardian]

I think that via facebook (since it has so many users, because of its popularity) people may have a bigger chance in spreading the word more widely. As opposed to WorldTruth.

Well yeah, but how many of Facebook's millions of users are brain dead zombies who think sharing a picture of their lunch is amusing?

Maybe a site like WT will attract a larger percentage of users who can actually think?