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Re:I ran a crawler to collect posts and comments on Parler by tpoacher on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:57PM (#25765631)
Worse still. You want to cause trouble? All you need to do is open an account in your enemy's platform and start being a publicly visible asshole under its badge.

I'm not claiming a "bad apples are always planted" conspiracy theory, but it does worry me how easy it is to do so and create a destructive narrative if you really wanted to.

Whereas if you're just trolling in a general platform, most likely outcome is that you'll get called out for it from both sides and that's about it.

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Re:I ran a crawler to collect posts and comments on Parler by Viliam1234 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:47PM (#25783977)
Create a new account, post some shit, immediately screenshot it, and share the picture on your real Twitter account. Takes 1 minute of time, and has a chance to be shared by media.
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Re:I ran a crawler to collect posts and comments on Parler by x86_64Ubuntu on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:44PM (#25767026)
No one is going to buy the argument of "bad apples" on Parler. It was designed because the bad apples were getting regulated on your standard platform.
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