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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by wincy on Saturday January 09, 2021 @08:50PM (#25707717)
It’s really annoying as someone interested in hearing what fringe voices have to say even if I disagree with them. I’m constantly having to try to figure out where to go if I want to break out of the liberal echo chamber.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by nfRfqX5n on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:48AM (#25715816)
still plenty of it on twitter and 4chan
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by crocodiletears on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:05PM (#25716721)
Twitter and 4Chan are generally for bareknuckle flamewars, and low-effort shitposts. In short, they're the least useful elements of the fringe, and their producers are easy to find because half their fun comes from ignoring bans, and pseudononymously transgressing social norms.

The content that is constantly forced to move is dialogue, and ideological exchange. The useful stuff. If you want to follow those discussions, you have to pay constant attention, and be prepared to run through social media accounts and platforms like tissue platform, or socially engineer yourself into multiple encrypted chats.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by zaroth on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:26AM (#25710688)
Ah yes, we’ve found the next target!
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