Just as systemic racism can occur in institutions, systemic bias can occur in the technology sector. Once momentum builds in a political direction, there becomes a cost associated with going against that grain. Over time it has built up to a breaking point where dissent from that bias effectively removes people from being able to participate.

I think it's not intellectually honest to believe systemic issues in one instance require intervention, but not in the other.

Really? HN is a forum of technical people. The technology behind creating a forum is not rocket science. Getting a colocated server is not rocket science.

There are enough conservative outlets that should both be willing to fund the development and for a marketing outlet.

Hell, I am the furthest thing from a conservative but if conservatives are really so inept that they can’t create their own forums, give me the money. I’ll figure it out. I’m not going to do your marketing for you. But if an atheist can make it big selling bible apps,I’ll take their money to create a forum.

Oh and BTW, I think I probably know a little more about “systemic racism” than you do. You can’t imagine the looks we got when we first started searching for homes and getting one built in the neighborhoods where “we don’t belong” or the number of times that consultants came in to talk to the dev lead and started talking to one of my reports and walked right past me.

Parler doesn't solve any of the alleged problems with centralized tech platforms. It just erects another centralized service with yet another promissory note to be nice and stuff.

They are simply cynically using the fears/persecution complexes of conservatives (many of whom have huge audiences on the social networks they claim are oppressing them) as a ploy to seed their network with a large pool of users.

If the people migrating really cared about tech censorship, they'd launch a Mastadon node.