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by rbanffy 1790 days ago
Gab preaches to the choir - everyone there is already gone. Parler seems to be something between catastrophe and fraud against its investors.

They don’t differentiate from the dominant players enough to be considered categories on their own, the audience already has the desired views, and they aggressively moderate against conflicting discourse.

Parler was incredibly useful for uncovering the January 6th attack, however.

Eventually some service will take over Facebook and Twitter, but I doubt that it’ll be something that’s so targeted to the far-right.