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But it was really about robust business relationships rather than robust technology, wasn't it? According to then-CEO John Matze, their bank, lawyers, text and mail delivery services also cancelled on them.
The scariest one IME is having the bank cancel you. I really worry the world is heading for parallel societies. Good luck to us all.
His investors and board hired him to win, not to pick a principled hill to die on. Martyrs are cheap and nobody making investments can afford cheap things. The irony is Parler positioned itself as less radical than Gab, and it was that very position of bargaining with its platforms is what killed it. How can 4chan, Gab, and the even darker parts of the internet manage to persist online with hardly any money, but someone with Mercer level backing can't keep a site online? The lesson is an example of things we already know, which is that anyone who needs platform permission do to a disruptive startup is already dead.
We absolutely need alternative platforms, and our societies need tools that can survive popular histrionics. Getting owned by some sanctimonious prick at Amazon is not pro level play.
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... )
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> If they were behind Cloudflare or another DDoS protection website, you wouldn't even be able to tell they were an AWS customer at all. This is non-sensical. AWS certainly knew they were a customer, and they were the ones that kicked them off. Plus, Cloudflare has deplatformed other customers before, don't think they would have wanted to touch Parler either.
Cloudflare fronts gab without issues afaik. I agree with parent comment that if they didn’t parade it so much they could get away with it
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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.
I think I say a lot of somewhat controversial things, but they let it fly because I am not popular.
Was he the CTO as well? That’s who should really be fired (unless Matze hired the CTO in which case sack them both).
Could you imagine being the CTO of this company, kind of cruising along in the modern integration focused environment? You need an email provider (looks like they used SendGrid) a 2FA provider (Twilio), hosting (AWS), apps (Apple, Google), internal chat (Slack), etc. Now imagine all of those services say "nah, you're done". All of the sudden you need to roll your own everything. You have millions of users and no acce…
At least you would have some reputation intact. Now he is just the guy that failed, couldn't recover and will have a hard time going anywhere.
Not surprising, when your first and foremost duty as the headhoncho should be doing what you can to keep your site online. It's been almost a month that the site has been down for now. Yes, an outage should be expected when you get deplatformed at a network level... however they could not put up anything more than a status page in this time.
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.
Genuine question
Are there any tools for hosting large volumes of user generated content in a decentralized permissionless way?
Even if you have to pare down the front end and reduce reliance on some infrastructure concepts, is there any way to do it right now?
Looks like free speech won't be returning to Parler. No use putting the site back up if basic principles are abandoned.
Wow, 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.
I don’t know if that’s really true. At least not in the Bay Area, which holds the lions share of internet companies from hosting to CDN.
It’s actually remarkably hard to run any kind of website of note and not be at the mercy of some company based out of SV.