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Could you imagine being the CTO of this company, kind of cruising along in the modern integration focused environment? You need an email provider (looks like th

Could you imagine being the CTO of this company, kind of cruising along in the modern integration focused environment? You need an email provider (looks like they used SendGrid) a 2FA provider (Twilio), hosting (AWS), apps (Apple, Google), internal chat (Slack), etc. Now imagine all of those services say "nah, you're done". All of the sudden you need to roll your own everything. You have millions of users and no access to fractional development of load balancing, crafting emails to avoid spam filter, best practices in 2FA, well organized chat permission systems. It's the true nightmare scenario for a modern company. If you say "they should have anticipated being de-platformed", well they probably never would have made it as far if they had focused on that.

karmicthreat 6y ago
The smarter move for the CTO might have been to get things going. Keep networking with other companies for a same level position and then peace out when it looks like things are going to blow up. At least you would have some reputation intact. Now he is just the guy that failed, couldn't recover and will have a hard time going anywhere.
jorblumesea 6y ago
I could imagine a stronger and more politically astute leader would have realized this and stalled for time. He could have done literally anything and it would have been better than what he did. Which was basically nothing. When the criticism came in he just pushed back like he was the one holding all the cards. Then everyone cut him off because he had no leverage. Completely predictable and poorly handled.
gkoberger 6y ago
Eh every similar platform, such as Gab, was "deplatformed" so it feels like they should have seen it coming.
- judge2020 6y ago
  Exactly, the story of Parler sounds like it was just a trojan horse to ignite the 'deplatforming' debate on the world stage, or at least in the U.S. which is largely unique in the belief that you can say whatever you want without consequence (at least for a double-digit percentage of the population).
bawolff 6y ago
Sure these things are annoying and it usually doesnt make business sense to roll your own, but its not exactly impossible either. Need slack? Install an irc server (i assume this is for internal use). Need email, install sendmail and thunderbid, need a 2fa provider? TOTP is literally five lines of code. Yes its all annoying, yes it will be rough around the edges, yes it will slow velocity, but no, missing them will not make your business intractable.

karmicthreat 6y ago

The smarter move for the CTO might have been to get things going. Keep networking with other companies for a same level position and then peace out when it looks like things are going to blow up. At least you would have some reputation intact. Now he is just the guy that failed, couldn't recover and will have a hard time going anywhere.

jorblumesea 6y ago

I could imagine a stronger and more politically astute leader would have realized this and stalled for time. He could have done literally anything and it would have been better than what he did. Which was basically nothing. When the criticism came in he just pushed back like he was the one holding all the cards. Then everyone cut him off because he had no leverage. Completely predictable and poorly handled.

gkoberger 6y ago

Eh every similar platform, such as Gab, was "deplatformed" so it feels like they should have seen it coming.

judge2020 6y ago
Exactly, the story of Parler sounds like it was just a trojan horse to ignite the 'deplatforming' debate on the world stage, or at least in the U.S. which is largely unique in the belief that you can say whatever you want without consequence (at least for a double-digit percentage of the population).

bawolff 6y ago

Sure these things are annoying and it usually doesnt make business sense to roll your own, but its not exactly impossible either. Need slack? Install an irc server (i assume this is for internal use). Need email, install sendmail and thunderbid, need a 2fa provider? TOTP is literally five lines of code. Yes its all annoying, yes it will be rough around the edges, yes it will slow velocity, but no, missing them will not make your business intractable.