Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by lovecg on Saturday January 09, 2021 @04:42PM
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That’s one thing that’s hard about it. Scaling and running the service reliably is far from trivial and this tends to be severely underestimated by “let’s just build a competitor” crowd.
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by AnthonyMouse on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:06PM
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> Scaling and running the service reliably is far from trivial and this tends to be severely underestimated by “let’s just build a competitor” crowd.
This is not a trivial problem, but it's also not one that hasn't been solved a hundred times before, and seems to be something they've already handled.
But I also want to put something in juxtaposition here. You have on the one hand the argument that this isn't censorship because they're a private company and you can just make your own. On the other hand, the argument that booting them off is useful because making your own is impractical and they'll fail. If one is true then the other isn't, right?
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by Kim_Bruning on Saturday January 09, 2021 @05:54PM
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https://parler.com/
Didn't everyone move to Parler?
That Parler thing was temporarily offline under the load of all the new users. That's not the problem you have when you're having the actual problem of convincing enough people to switch.