Facebook Incubated the Insurrection

Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection by spaced-out on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:40AM (#25777629)

Parler only has 30 employees, has some very well-publicized security and design flaws suggesting a lack of engineering talent, and is backed by just one private investor. The only way they were even able to release an app of that scale is because of all the services they bought from companies like Amazon.

The lesson the business world should take from this is: invest in your engineers.

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Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection by SV_BubbleTime on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:29AM (#25778308)

I’m not sure I follow the “only giant, mature, and billions/trillion dollar companies should be allowed to have public services” argument.

Twitter had 30 engineers at one point, they weren’t deplatformed before becoming a better product.

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Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection by spaced-out on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:10PM (#25779000)

First, Parler would still be up if they followed AWS's terms of service.

Second, they've already found a new host (https://www.npr.org/2021/01/13/956315632/after-booted-by-big...), yet they announced they'll still likely go offline because that host can't provide all the engineering talent Parler relied on. They just need built up their teams and do the work to develop their internal infrastructure. They don't need to become a billion dollar company to do that.

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Re:Facebook Incubated the Insurrection by jelliclesfarm on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:16PM (#25779082)

This is an illuminating example of Silicon Valley(CA)vs Silicon Alley(NY) of startups.

I guess in this particular case, Gab vs Parler. Access to capital isn’t enough. Companies also need good legal advice, scale strategy and testing. Etc.

A teachable moment.

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