Putting politics aside (I know, it's difficult), I can't help but wonder why is it that even with companies like these, marketing comes first? Looking at Gab,

Putting politics aside (I know, it's difficult), I can't help but wonder why is it that even with companies like these, marketing comes first? Looking at Gab, Parler and now Epik, it confuses my you'd paint a giant target on your back before making sure that everything's as secure as can be. Parler was basically a Wordpress instance hacked through one of the plugins they ran. (And since it was a WP instance the also had the whole thing scraped because of the sequential nature of the IDs Wordpress uses.) Gab rolled their own SQL injection mitigation and failed at it, published the source code themselves since they moved to the Mastodon network and then tried to cover up the whole thing --- and got hacked again because they never reset the user tokens. And now this with Epik. I understand the need to attract a clientele and free speech in itself can be attractive because there's so many issues stemming from automated content removal that people often have issues with the current providers but it simply makes no sense to set yourself up for a politically motivated hack and do nothing to prevent it... it's pretty crazy.