[smoldesu]

The AGPL license explicitly covers this edge case, it describes the release of software as "a publicly available network server". Whether or not you consider this a 'release' is irrelevant, the requirement for distributing source code still applies. See for yourself:

"If you convey a covered work, knowingly relying on a patent license, and the Corresponding Source of the work is not available for anyone to copy, free of charge and under the terms of this License, through a publicly available network server or other readily accessible means, then you must either (1) cause the Corresponding Source to be so available, or (2) arrange to deprive yourself of the benefit of the patent license for this particular work, or (3) arrange, in a manner consistent with the requirements of this License, to extend the patent license to downstream recipients. "Knowingly relying" means you have actual knowledge that, but for the patent license, your conveying the covered work in a country, or your recipient's use of the covered work in a country, would infringe one or more identifiable patents in that country that you have reason to believe are valid."

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html

[tolleydbg]

I aware what the license says, but it doesn't really matter how it's worded or how we would like to interpret it, under US law, this is likely non-binding clause without a release/distribution. The fact that the license mentions release in section 5b makes it clear that either the license wasn't carefully crafted or that this particular edge case isn't what was meant in that clause. If that is what they meant, this seems to violate one of the central tenants of the FSF.

The use of the qualifier 'patent' in the license definitely doesn't clear anything up if Truth Social wasn't released for commercial consumption.

If this was released for consumers, as some above have suggested, then that's a different case, but I haven't seen any evidence of this, not that I spent much time looking.