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Twitter is competing for Parler’s audience now. This is just accelerating that process along.

photochemsyn 4y ago
I think the actual internal business model is motivated more by the desire to capture the Tik-Tok audience than the Parler audience - it's much larger. However, it is true that from a purely business viewpoint, you'd want a platform that was equally popular with left-Democrats, right-Republicans, and unaffiliated-independents.
- pjc50 4y ago
  It has been noted that Tiktok is not on the ban list, possibly because of Elon's personal decision to reinstate "libsoftiktok", a prominent harrasment account. > equally popular with left-Democrats, right-Republicans, and unaffiliated-independents A large number of forces are making this increasingly impossible.
  - richbell 4y ago
    Random unfounded speculation: he also doesn't want to risk souring his relationship with China.
  - yucky 4y ago
    > "libsoftiktok", a prominent harrasment account What? They literally post exact quotes that have aged poorly and/or posts that are evidence of clear double standards and hypocrisy. That's a public service if anything.
  - charcircuit 4y ago
    He didn't ban YouTube or Twitch either. TikTok isn't banned because it's not twitter like.
- minimaxir 4y ago
  > desire to capture the Tik-Tok audience The TikTok audience is the one that would also refuse to use Twitter specifically because of Elon.
greggarious 4y ago
> Twitter is competing for Parler’s audience now. This is just accelerating that process along. What was Parler's audience exactly? I was too busy smoking weed and complaining to people on my burner phones my hard drive wasn't big enough to download the Blueleaks and I was too broke to buy server space to check it out, but it felt like that thing spun up fairly rapidly, then imploded when someone scraped the entire thing and put it up on Bittorrent. Is there some other place, like some kind of KKK festival, where these people gather outside the internet? Or is it just the same ball of hate that bounced from LUE to SA to 4chan to like... seven different places to trade CSAM... then they all ended up back together on 8chan when the DNS providers started yanking services and they had to abuse the magic of onion services? (Sorry if I'm violating the guidelines by going full "Wolf Warrior", but I didn't waste my 20s on civil society so rude MFers could talk about shooting up houses of worship -- I did it so they'd be able to overthrow their totalitarian rulers like we should have done back in 2009 when they were LRADing me and my girlfriends or whatever on my way home from the University of Pittsburgh film club I was a member of back in the day... if I'd known then what I know now, I'd have gotten an MFA and a revolver instead of "All But Dissertation" and a stack of business cards.)

I think the actual internal business model is motivated more by the desire to capture the Tik-Tok audience than the Parler audience - it's much larger. However, it is true that from a purely business viewpoint, you'd want a platform that was equally popular with left-Democrats, right-Republicans, and unaffiliated-independents.

pjc50 4y ago
It has been noted that Tiktok is not on the ban list, possibly because of Elon's personal decision to reinstate "libsoftiktok", a prominent harrasment account. > equally popular with left-Democrats, right-Republicans, and unaffiliated-independents A large number of forces are making this increasingly impossible.
- richbell 4y ago
  Random unfounded speculation: he also doesn't want to risk souring his relationship with China.
- yucky 4y ago
  > "libsoftiktok", a prominent harrasment account What? They literally post exact quotes that have aged poorly and/or posts that are evidence of clear double standards and hypocrisy. That's a public service if anything.
- charcircuit 4y ago
  He didn't ban YouTube or Twitch either. TikTok isn't banned because it's not twitter like.
minimaxir 4y ago
> desire to capture the Tik-Tok audience The TikTok audience is the one that would also refuse to use Twitter specifically because of Elon.

greggarious 4y ago

> Twitter is competing for Parler’s audience now. This is just accelerating that process along. What was Parler's audience exactly? I was too busy smoking weed and complaining to people on my burner phones my hard drive wasn't big enough to download the Blueleaks and I was too broke to buy server space to check it out, but it felt like that thing spun up fairly rapidly, then imploded when someone scraped the entire thing and put it up on Bittorrent. Is there some other place, like some kind of KKK festival, where these people gather outside the internet? Or is it just the same ball of hate that bounced from LUE to SA to 4chan to like... seven different places to trade CSAM... then they all ended up back together on 8chan when the DNS providers started yanking services and they had to abuse the magic of onion services? (Sorry if I'm violating the guidelines by going full "Wolf Warrior", but I didn't waste my 20s on civil society so rude MFers could talk about shooting up houses of worship -- I did it so they'd be able to overthrow their totalitarian rulers like we should have done back in 2009 when they were LRADing me and my girlfriends or whatever on my way home from the University of Pittsburgh film club I was a member of back in the day... if I'd known then what I know now, I'd have gotten an MFA and a revolver instead of "All But Dissertation" and a stack of business cards.)