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While I have no sympathy for Parler or its users, I find it quite scary that these big companies have the power to wipe out an entire social network. They wouldn't hesitate to do this to leftists given any excuse.
As with most news lately, the appropriate reaction is equal parts:
- lmao eat shit fascist pigs
- oh damn we better get armed and organized yesterday
Its almost like allowing privately owned, for profit companies to run wild until they hold all the capital and power has consequences.
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I'm not sure where it's hosted but I think at least at the beginning, @Beatnik was personally paying for it and had ownership of the site.
Yeah I think there’s going to be a lot of efforts to bring discussion back under to the normal, and more friendly to the status quo, kind of dems vs gop discourse over the next couple years.
I mean the horses are out of the stable at this point on populism and all that but I think there will be a concerted effort by capital to crack down on it soon.
Easier to let this shit run wild than to rein it in.
Republicans tried that in '88 and were eating shit by '92. They only recovered by going Gingrich, and even then it was a bumpy ride.
Concervatives look like they're just going to cannibalize the Dem party from the inside and make this a One Party County, with a fascist rump of a GOP.
However, we are not boomers. We know how to install an app with an apk file, or at least how to Google how to do so.
Our infrastructure is also way more resilient to this than parler. They made some serious mistakes.
Aren't we just running on rented servers too? Or do you mean it was heavily integrated?
It was completely integrated and build around cloud services, instead of being built on the lowest common denominator.
If you build things from an open source ground base on bare metal, you're not reliant on AWS. You can use either of literally thousands of VPS hosts, and if THAT isn't possible for some obscure reason, you can get someone to put it on their computer at home - roll your own servers.
Whereas if you use things like Twilio, S3, Lambda and so on, you have no option outside major tech companies. But if push comes to shove, we could pay bitcoin to some shady Ukrainian or Eritrean server host to have our website hosted.
My leftover BTC from when I used to buy semi-legal drugs on the internet has grown to a couple of hundred dollars and I am happy to contribute.
The cloud is just someone else's computer, but Jeff Bezos's computer is going to serve the interests of capitol on a hair-trigger when compared w/ some rando vps* provider.
The OP link gets into how they've been dropped by everyone (including Twilio & their lawyers most likely), and that's shit opsec/using us-based services because you know that the empire tolerates fash.
I'm aware, I don't really see how else you're supposed to run something like this without building your own servers. Even those other hosting platforms probably use AWS as some point. Amazon basically owns the internet at this point.
Cool but what's gonna happen when that happens to leftists? I hope you got some Chinese server host lined up
why don't we just make a subreddit and autoban the word "chapo" so it's not ban evasion
