Re:Parler Raises $20M
by willio58 on Friday January 07, 2022 @07:03PM
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I think this or some other conservative social media actually gaining some dominance is very likely. Especially with all of the permanent bans recently happening on twitter and facebook. Imagine the power of the echo chamber when the whole point of an app is to be republican-twitter or republican-facebook.
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Re:Parler Raises $20M
by ravenstine on Saturday January 08, 2022 @12:42AM
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I don't consider myself conservative by any stretch of the imagination but part of the reason I don't even bother with mainstream social media (besides it just being a toxic idea on an individual level) is that I know I'd repeatedly get in trouble in spite of following the rules for being myself.
Twitter is already an echo chamber, so it's really puzzling how all of a sudden the echo chamber problem needs to be pulled out for other platforms.
Re:Parler Raises $20M
by seattle_spring on Saturday January 08, 2022 @01:30AM
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What behaviors would you exhibit that you worry would get you in trouble?
Re:Parler Raises $20M
by errantmind on Saturday January 08, 2022 @02:36AM
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Incessant skepticism of the dominant narrative
Why are you talking about an "echo chamber" in this instance as if this is some new thing?
Re:Parler Raises $20M
by smackeyacky on Friday January 07, 2022 @08:41PM
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Not sure its about power, more about access to a demographic that is pre filtered. Could be lucrative for certain advertisers who want to target the group who is attracted to parler.
Although the crowds booing trump after he announced he had his vax booster shot should give advertisers in this space some pause, sometimes the messages and disinformation create a life of their own that doesn't follow the script.
No need to imagine when we have left-twitter already.
Re:Parler Raises $20M
by seattle_spring on Friday January 07, 2022 @11:02PM
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Considering it's still dead simple to become inundated with far right opinions and conspiracy theories on twitter, it's a bit of a stretch to claim it's "left-twitter."
Just because the most egregious and dangerous stuff from one side gets deleted does not mean it's a place only for the polar opposite.
Ive found Twitter leans left by about a ratio of 10 to 1.
However the volume of users is sufficiently large that you can be swamped by any minority if you choose, no matter how tiny.
“left-twitter” simply designates a subcommunity within twitter. I don’t think OP meant that Twitter as a whole leans left. Many people have an opinion on that topic, but in reality it’s hard to know for sure as Twitter is very large.