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Re:Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in s... by notahacker on Monday January 18, 2021 @06:52AM (#25820810)
Let's follow that argument through to its logical conclusion. If the incumbents actually were hunting witches "so hard that 95% of their refugees were innocent people", the vast majority of the influx of refugees to new platforms would not be witches and they would not have to worry about getting a large user bases for witches to be vastly outnumbered.

Presumably this would be reflected in Gab, Voat and Parler being entirely normal discussion forums where people talking about storming capitols or Jewish problems would soon be shouted down by the majority userbase of perfectly normal people. Has this been the case?

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Re:Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in s... by AnthonyMouse on Monday January 18, 2021 @12:04PM (#25823818)
> Has this been the case?

The only one of the three that reached the point of having enough users to plausibly get there was Parler, and they were forced offline almost immediately after that happened. On the basis of a list of misbehavior which was unlikely to have been representative.

They had 10 million users. I have a hard time believing that there are 10 million "insurrectionists" in the country and if there were we have bigger problems. Meanwhile the cherry picked examples weren't anything you couldn't also find on Twitter or Facebook.

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