Another one bites the dust
Parler shuts down as new owner says conservative platform needs big revamp
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this is good news for truth social
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Is truth social still US only?
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i cant tell
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This explains why I still haven't gotten my invite
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If Trump is serious about running again he needs to get his fat butt back on Twitter ASAP. I'm as big a chud as anyone and even I can't be bothered with making an account there.
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Doesn't matter when my every shitpost is national news
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winning strategy for a product built on networks lmao
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GOOD
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Gotta have a fun gimmick
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Remember when this was "leaked" a few years ago? I have no reason to suspect the people working there are anything less than r-slurred .
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wha? they want 100 units of 96vcpus????
am I being r-slurred or just their i3.metal requirements pass $200k permonth lol wtf and I was being generous with 3yr reserved instances and gen purpose ssd
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How can Parler even justify its existence now that Truth Social exists? It's just a shitty Gab clone at this point with even worse security.
And also chuds have been able to take over Twitter so there's that.
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I forgot that website even existed tbh. Same with Gab.ai.
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A product of their time really, back when making a rightoid alternative was seen as a good marketing strategy, now these rightoid social media "alternatives" are only populated by tech illiterate boomers, the majority of the Neo.Nazis/Wignats have migrated to /pol/, Telegram, and their endless Groomercord servers that come and go.
I have a rightoid relative in his 60s who is the archetype of the tech illiterate rightoid boomer, back in 2017-2018 he once told me about how I should sign up for this new free speech-friendly site called Gab because big tech globohomo is censoring conservneurodivergents like him, he signed up on Gab because he saw some r-slurs advertise it on YouTube, he used Gab for like less than like 4 days before coming back to Twitter
He also talked about Parler but was never that much interested in it, so I am not sure if he ever used it, who knows if the broke the record of 4 days using the site!
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It isn't? Should someone tell trump?
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Is truth social still in financial turmoil?
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seriously, how many conservative social media apps launched in the last 3-4 years? i couldn't keep up
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I'll be planning to come back later to downmarsey your post when my downmarsey count has reset.
Snapshots:
archive.org
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archive.ph (click to archive)
Parler's homepage rn:
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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Wow I didn’t know it was still a thing
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