I wonder how much damage that disastrous interview with Kara Swisher did (for the site and for Matze). I have no sense of this.
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/opinion/sway-kara-swisher...)
Parler CEO says he was fired by board
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I can think of plenty of SV darlings that would take far longer than a month to recover from such an event. That said, given the content Parler was hosting they really should've planned for something like this, so it makes sense to terminate the CEO.
They had a backup plan for getting kicked off AWS, supposedly, but the backup plan terminated their relationship with Parler before AWS did. I can imagine Parler also might have some problems attracting the kind of talent needed to run a site like that.
> I can imagine Parler also might have some problems attracting the kind of talent needed to run a site like that
Naaah, plenty of fash-curious engineers out there.
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#53Looks like free speech won't be returning to Parler. No use putting the site back up if basic principles are abandoned.
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Given that he initially represented that they had no real hard dependencies on AWS, I assume that the Mercers quickly lost patience when it became clear that they were locked into AWS, with no contingency.
This is why you should build for bare metal. It's fine to use k8s and containers, but don't lock yourself into Lambda, SQS, etc. You should be able to spin up anywhere.
That works until your colo provider tells you to take a walk. Your landlord evicts you from warehouse where you host your backup datacenter space, your ISP cuts you off. It's almost like everybody drew the line at openly planning insurrection. Maybe they could have tried not doing that?
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
They had a backup plan for getting kicked off AWS, supposedly, but the backup plan terminated their relationship with Parler before AWS did. I can imagine Parler also might have some problems attracting the kind of talent needed to run a site like that.
Huh, it's almost like no provider in America is cool with your platform being used to plan an insurrection. Or open calls for violence against and murder of elected officials.
except, Twitter?
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
They had a backup plan for getting kicked off AWS, supposedly, but the backup plan terminated their relationship with Parler before AWS did. I can imagine Parler also might have some problems attracting the kind of talent needed to run a site like that.
Huh, it's almost like no provider in America is cool with your platform being used to plan an insurrection. Or open calls for violence against and murder of elected officials.
Suspect there are hosting providers in other countries.
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Most Silicon Valley darlings run disaster recovery exercises simulating setting up a datacenter from scratch in less than 24 hours (not that Parler should be compared to any of these companies, clearly)
Yeah but that usually means switching from AWS to GCP not, build a data center from scratch oh and by the way nobody from electricians to truckers will work with you because your platform was used to plan a violent attack on America.
Right, so step #1, don't plan a violent attack on America?
Re: Parler CEO says he was fired by board
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
They had a backup plan for getting kicked off AWS, supposedly, but the backup plan terminated their relationship with Parler before AWS did. I can imagine Parler also might have some problems attracting the kind of talent needed to run a site like that.
Huh, it's almost like no provider in America is cool with your platform being used to plan an insurrection. Or open calls for violence against and murder of elected officials.
Like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter? Parler was a scapegoat to deflect attention from the rest of this category of software.
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#59Wow, they can't figure out how to colocate a server? There are plenty of companies that would love to be the hosting face of Parler and agree with its userbase.
Re: Parler CEO says he was fired by board
#60Looks like free speech won't be returning to Parler. No use putting the site back up if basic principles are abandoned.
Just so ya know, inciting violence is not protected speech.