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Last edited 2nd January 2023.

Background

Hello, I don’t know who and how many people will see this so I should probably start off by introducing myself, I am the creator and lead developer of Revolt, an open-source AGPL licensed chat platform. I go online by the pseudonym @insert and I’m a full-time student studying Computer Science in London.

I started Revolt around 2019 when I was just 16 years old and have grown it to reach an audience I would have never imagined I would. Fast forward to today and we have several companies trying to take my and others’ hard work without any repercussions (though we will only focus on Andrew Tate in this instance).

Preamble

For those who don’t know, The Real World (therealworld.ai) appears to be yet another online venture led by Andrew Tate, a notorious online figure. The service promises that you will become successful and you will become rich for the low price of 150$ then 50$ per month. From public sources, I’ve found out that they have at least 110k users registered on the platform currently.

They are using the Revolt software which is distributed under the AGPL. It’s relatively easy to confirm that they are using modified versions of both revite (web app) and delta (API server) by simply inspecting their website, which means they’ve produced a derivative work that they are making av