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"I predicted all of this, you know. All of it." Deplatforming and the cry of "businesses can choose who they do business with" were always inevitably going to

"I predicted all of this, you know. All of it." Deplatforming and the cry of "businesses can choose who they do business with" were always inevitably going to lead to the creation of platforms that cater to the deplatformed, even if only because it makes business sense to provide service to the underserved. And, if the cultural and political winds blow the wrong way, it's not impossible for them to eclipse the social media giants they splintered from. The deplatformers footgunned themselves, all while patting each other on the back.

evgen 6y ago
Let me call the wahmbulance for all of the snowflake conservatives who think they deserve a platform... Parler, like all right-wing sites before it, is already on the fast path to becoming a nazi shithole. In a few months, when everyone who never really left FB and Twitter is back, I predict that we will add this site to the list of failed attempts by right-wing pseudo-intellectuals to try to thread the needle in the ever shrinking space between Republican talking points and National Socialist rhetoric. The problem with building a site for angry ignorant polemicists is that after a short while they will get bored with talking to themselves and while Fox News personalities can make a living selling herbal ED treatments and scam gold schemes there is not a lot of commercial upside for a place like Parler. Their userbase will peak within six months when the first Trump is indicted and will have dropped 75% by the time the first is convicted.
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bitmunk 6y ago
>The deplatformers footgunned themselves, all while patting each other on the back. What? Did anyone say that being banned from a website was a laser gun that deleted people from the internet?. This has happened before and will happen again (see Gab for a very recent example) The most probable outcome is Voat 2: Electric Boogaloo, or not even that considering that the website is stuck on it's logo for me.

evgen 6y ago

Let me call the wahmbulance for all of the snowflake conservatives who think they deserve a platform... Parler, like all right-wing sites before it, is already on the fast path to becoming a nazi shithole. In a few months, when everyone who never really left FB and Twitter is back, I predict that we will add this site to the list of failed attempts by right-wing pseudo-intellectuals to try to thread the needle in the ever shrinking space between Republican talking points and National Socialist rhetoric. The problem with building a site for angry ignorant polemicists is that after a short while they will get bored with talking to themselves and while Fox News personalities can make a living selling herbal ED treatments and scam gold schemes there is not a lot of commercial upside for a place like Parler. Their userbase will peak within six months when the first Trump is indicted and will have dropped 75% by the time the first is convicted.

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bitmunk 6y ago

>The deplatformers footgunned themselves, all while patting each other on the back. What? Did anyone say that being banned from a website was a laser gun that deleted people from the internet?. This has happened before and will happen again (see Gab for a very recent example) The most probable outcome is Voat 2: Electric Boogaloo, or not even that considering that the website is stuck on it's logo for me.