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Re:Parler Users Breached Deep Inside U.S. Capitol Building, ... by BitwiseFool on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:00PM (#25754512)
Any viable social media competitor needs critical mass. A conservative exodus to Parler would be one way to make that happen. Big tech just squashed a competitor while the "iron was hot" for Parler and even if it comes back online it might never get the network effect it could have gotten.
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Re:Parler Users Breached Deep Inside U.S. Capitol Building, ... by dragontamer on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:10PM (#25754629)
lobste.rs seems to be doing fine as a discussion site aimed at technologists.

This "hypergrowth at all costs" mindset is pretty suffocating. There's plenty of niche sites that are successful without the need of trying to be the biggest in the world.

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