[Pils]

I think the recent NYT article on DLive laid out a theory that I find particularly convincing.

> In messages obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Wayn told employees last year that he wanted to suspend some of the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who streamed on his site. But, he added, “if today we ban everyone controversial on DLive, the difficulties we will encounter on the growth will be 10x more than having them.”

> The strategy, Mr. Wayn said, was to “tolerate” them while amassing more legitimate video game players who would eventually “dilute” the right-wing community.[0]

Parler isn't run by "extremely principled libertarians," Parler just wants to get its foot in the door. And when taking on a dominant, well-funded incumbent, few users is perhaps better than no users.

It seems to have worked out for Reddit.

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/technology/dlive-capitol-...

[tedunangst]

This seems like a poor week to execute such a growth strategy.

[tootie]

Reddit made their bones with what I'd consider very high quality content. I used reddit before the Digg exodus and it was very techy and high-brow for the most part. Then came the cat pics and corny jokes. Then it spiralled.