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Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter

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Re: Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter

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Post by iso1210 »

secondcoming wrote: post #253
cm2187 wrote: post #145

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Agree, we will likely end up with right leaning town square and left leaning town square. And because every company seems to think they need to pick a side on political topics, it may extend beyond speech platforms. For instance I wouldn't be surprised if at one point conservative leaning viewers would migrate away from the likes of netflix for been fed up of being preached woke catechism in every TV show. And perhap…

I really hope Netflix learns from the awfulness of Star Trek Discovery.

Discovery had a ropey start with the secrecy in the first few episodes, but it really grew in S2, and S3 is awesome.

Re: Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

wyoh wrote: post #252
victorbstan wrote: post #236

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How does that work? Since most of the hate mobs are in Parler now?

There's no hate mob in Parler, they're all conservatives, why would they hate each other.

> There's no hate mob in Parler, they're all conservatives, why would they hate each other.

There’s no hate in the KKK. They are all white. Why would they hate each other?

See the problem with this construction?

Re: Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter

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Post by ctdonath »

hooande wrote: post #179
dustinmoris wrote: post #118

In mid October I deleted almost all my tweets and likes (but Twitter being so shit they are still showing my likes except it’s not liked anymore lol) and have not been tweeting anything anymore. I found Twitter too toxic, it made me angry with people for no reason, so I deleted all my tweets and the app. No more notifications, no more “just checking Twitter quickly”. I now go to Twitter like once a day just to have a…

if twitter is so bad, why do you keep using it?

With mainstream news being so propagandist, only way to keep up with actual news is Twitter: people bypassing curators and directly & efficiently stating what happens.

Re: Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter

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Post by spacemanmatt »

indigo945 wrote: post #285
wyoh wrote: post #252

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There's no hate mob in Parler, they're all conservatives, why would they hate each other.

Because at this point, there is a sharp divide between conservatives who care about fiscal responsibility and family values, and "conservatives" who care about unmasking (((conspirators))) in pizza restaurants. Although to be fair, the platform will likely attract nothing but the latter.

Not sharp enough to say, vote for a better candidate

Re: Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter

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Post by input_sh »

BlueTemplar wrote: post #358

So, why Parler and not Mastodon ? Did Mastodon present itself as too 'left-wing' ?

I mean, Mastodon's founder and most of its userbase are definitely left-leaning, but I think the sole reason that it's Parler seeing the surge is because that's where a lot of right-wing pundits decided to go to. Dinesh D'Souza, Ted Cruz, Devin Nunes, Sean Hannity, etc.

It also kinda helps that Parler has a central authority that's able to verify certain accounts. Mastodon's designed not to support that "feature".

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Post by johnchristopher »

garmaine wrote: post #167
alkonaut wrote: post #128

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I think it’s down to who you follow. First, never ever read “trends” or random tweets. Never trust Twitters official app to show you anything useful. Using third party apps also saves you from ads. Second and most importantly, follow a set of users that are interesting, friendly, and who don’t engage publicly with trolls. It’s a magnificent tool for staying up to date with a narrow topic like a niche technology. Just…

Block early, block often. Think twice before following someone.

And disable retweets.

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Post by sct202 »

chrisseaton wrote: post #200
garmaine wrote: post #167

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Block early, block often. Think twice before following someone.

People seem to get furious about being blocked. I’ve seen people post publicly the name of the person who blocked them demanding an explanation. It seems to escalate things rather than calm them down.

Alternatively you can mute them which is more discreet.

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Post by input_sh »

kemenaran wrote: post #240
numpad0 wrote: post #233

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Mastodon didn’t work. The architecture couldn’t handle Japanese Twitter migrants overwhelming the network and Gab issues that came later. In current form, it is just an on-prem Twitter clone.

As far as I know, Mastodon is quite active, they’re releasing features and improvements monthly, and the number of active users is still growing.

> ...and the number of active users is still growing.

I use Mastodon and am definitely a fan, but the rudimentary stats we have (https://the-federation.info/) don't show the growth.

The number of monthly active users fluctuates between 400k-500k this entire year.

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Post by bxk1 »

threeseed wrote: post #318
coldtea wrote: post #287

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You can be against censorship and also be against the type of racist, xenophobic, sexist etc content you find unchecked on places like Parler, Gab, 4chan.

It's not that simple. Xenophobic content, for example, is "unchecked" on any U.S. owned platform, so is some racism, but not racism against black people specifically. At the same time in most other countries in the world racism, and especially racism against black people, isn't even a thing, but xenophobia is. So it's very unlikely for someone to truly sincerely be both against racist content and xenophobic content at the same time and even more unlikely to also sincerely be against censorship, then it's getting into very dystopian views territory, you can't hold such views without being exposed to massive amounts of propaganda.

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Post by elorant »

dustinmoris wrote: post #118

In mid October I deleted almost all my tweets and likes (but Twitter being so shit they are still showing my likes except it’s not liked anymore lol) and have not been tweeting anything anymore. I found Twitter too toxic, it made me angry with people for no reason, so I deleted all my tweets and the app. No more notifications, no more “just checking Twitter quickly”. I now go to Twitter like once a day just to have a…

The way I see it, the problem with social media is that you surround yourself with like-minded people, which diminishes your tolerance to different views. People become self righteous and can't take criticism lightly. Compare this to how things were 15 years ago, or how they are in here, where everyone and their dog can challenge your opinion. You become more open minded long term, and can handle criticism in a more mature way.
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