Pirate Bay used to go down frequently during the height of the police raids and prosecution against them, often for days at a time. Pirate Bay also has incredibly low bandwidth requirements,...
Pirate Bay used to go down frequently during the height of the police raids and prosecution against them, often for days at a time. Pirate Bay also has incredibly low bandwidth requirements, especially these days, and yet despite that it still isn't all that reliable. Whereas Parler is/was a fully fledged microblogging social media platform with millions of users, complete with image and video hosting. And Parler has only been down for a few days now too, and unfortunately may be back. So it's pretty silly to compare the two sites like this when one is orders of magnitude more complex than the other, and as such the statements from Sunde strike me as rather ill-thought-out, attention-seeking, and self-congratulatory.
Parler and its developers have plenty of things to be embarrassed about, both personally and professionally (e.g. the unsecured API, use of trial software for user authentication, etc.), but being brought down by Amazon, and being unable to (as yet) find another CDN or VPS able to handle the needs of their site (that is actually willing to work with them) isn't one of them.
IMO, this article is kinda dumb, and Sunde's statements are really not newsworthy at all.
Alternate theory: Parler doesn't want to be online right now. They are likely more than happy to be missing this wave of criticism, and this gives them ample enough excuses for not moderating...
Alternate theory: Parler doesn't want to be online right now. They are likely more than happy to be missing this wave of criticism, and this gives them ample enough excuses for not moderating during this abusive time.
If they wanted to be up, they could have been up by now on atleast a limited scale, but the Url doesn't even load, it doesn't redirect to a landing page, it's just gone even though they have already moved their domain name register. They want to be offline until the heat settles for them.
Note: I hope they stay gone, but just food for thought.
Is that a bad thing, though? Obviously I would strongly prefer people to avoid radicalization, but if there is going to be a channel which does it being harder to find or stumble into seems like...
Is that a bad thing, though? Obviously I would strongly prefer people to avoid radicalization, but if there is going to be a channel which does it being harder to find or stumble into seems like an advantage. It seems like far more people, especially mild fellow travelers would wind up on Parler and Facebook as opposed to telegram or signal.
I have a feeling that most of the Signal boost is due to WhatsApp, not deplatforming. The article notes the Musk tweet, but it seems to sweep the WA change under the rug. I know a decent number of...
I have a feeling that most of the Signal boost is due to WhatsApp, not deplatforming. The article notes the Musk tweet, but it seems to sweep the WA change under the rug.
I know a decent number of normal (i.e. people who aren't terminally online and people I know who live overseas) who now show up on Signal, for example.
Pirate Bay used to go down frequently during the height of the police raids and prosecution against them, often for days at a time. Pirate Bay also has incredibly low bandwidth requirements, especially these days, and yet despite that it still isn't all that reliable. Whereas Parler is/was a fully fledged microblogging social media platform with millions of users, complete with image and video hosting. And Parler has only been down for a few days now too, and unfortunately may be back. So it's pretty silly to compare the two sites like this when one is orders of magnitude more complex than the other, and as such the statements from Sunde strike me as rather ill-thought-out, attention-seeking, and self-congratulatory.
Parler and its developers have plenty of things to be embarrassed about, both personally and professionally (e.g. the unsecured API, use of trial software for user authentication, etc.), but being brought down by Amazon, and being unable to (as yet) find another CDN or VPS able to handle the needs of their site (that is actually willing to work with them) isn't one of them.
IMO, this article is kinda dumb, and Sunde's statements are really not newsworthy at all.
Alternate theory: Parler doesn't want to be online right now. They are likely more than happy to be missing this wave of criticism, and this gives them ample enough excuses for not moderating during this abusive time.
If they wanted to be up, they could have been up by now on atleast a limited scale, but the Url doesn't even load, it doesn't redirect to a landing page, it's just gone even though they have already moved their domain name register. They want to be offline until the heat settles for them.
Note: I hope they stay gone, but just food for thought.
If Parker goes, something else will fill its void. I don't like it, but the Trump crowd is here to stay.
Gab already is filling the void.
And a few other services, as mentioned in this article linked by @suspended: The online far right is moving underground
Is that a bad thing, though? Obviously I would strongly prefer people to avoid radicalization, but if there is going to be a channel which does it being harder to find or stumble into seems like an advantage. It seems like far more people, especially mild fellow travelers would wind up on Parler and Facebook as opposed to telegram or signal.
I have a feeling that most of the Signal boost is due to WhatsApp, not deplatforming. The article notes the Musk tweet, but it seems to sweep the WA change under the rug.
I know a decent number of normal (i.e. people who aren't terminally online and people I know who live overseas) who now show up on Signal, for example.