[HN Gopher] Conservatives are flocking to the social media app P...
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Conservatives are flocking to the social media app Parler
Author : dgudkov
Score : 23 points
Date : 2020-06-27 22:00 UTC (59 minutes ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.cnbc.com)
| riffic wrote:
| ActivityPub is better.
| horsemessiah wrote:
| Ah, good. More echo chambers.
| pizzazzaro wrote:
| No censorship. I'd be interested in seeing if that applies to
| Zoomer Maoists and their guillotine talk.
| bmarquez wrote:
| I'm trying out Parler. While I absolutely hated having to add a
| phone number to sign up, a positive side effect is that I have
| not run into any obvious troll or bot accounts. So far, it's
| keeping everyone honest.
|
| This will probably also turn out much better than Gab due to the
| presence of high-profile politicians.
| jki275 wrote:
| google voice phone numbers work.
| axaxs wrote:
| I hope so, too. I'm not really interested in 'social' these
| days, but joined Gab early on out of curiosity to check it out.
| That didn't last long. While not everyone was bad, there
| existed enough racist and hateful content shown to me to make
| me feel sick.
| test1235 wrote:
| That was a bit like voat, which tried to champion itself as a
| reddit alternative
| chrisco255 wrote:
| I like seeing the competition. Maybe that's the answer for the
| social media bias. But I fear that any private platform will
| eventually get corrupted. I would strongly prefer an open-source
| standard to beat out the big tech monopolies.
| riffic wrote:
| that standard exists.
| azangru wrote:
| CNBC title: "Trump fans..."
|
| HN title: "Conservatives..."
|
| Are conservatives regarded as indistinguishable from Trump fans
| these days?
| Acrobatic_Road wrote:
| The HN title is more accurate and less click baity.
| na85 wrote:
| >Are conservatives regarded as indistinguishable from Trump
| fans these days?
|
| In what meaningful way can they be distinguished?
| tibbydudeza wrote:
| Well that is great ... give nutjobs like Alex Jones their own
| echo chamber to rant and rave about Bill Gates, Soros 5G , Corona
| and the evil of vaccines.
| loraa wrote:
| It's dangerous to let conservatives have freedom of opinion and
| freedom of speech. Time to gather up the liberals and shut it
| down.
| Traster wrote:
| It'll be very interesting to see if a social media network
| exclusively of political content will be viable. Twitter may have
| a lot of politics on it, but that's not its raison d'etre.
|
| I have to laugh at the article though:
|
| >"With Devin Nunes came a whole pack of haters," said Matze. He
| said that parody accounts are fine and even welcome, but Parler
| draws a line when it comes to spammers. "You can't spam people's
| comment sections with unrelated content," he said.
|
| Well, firstly, it's well documented that Devin Nunes has _sued_
| parody accounts, and seccondly, making editorial decisions about
| which comments are suitably related is the editorial control that
| right wing partisans are falsly claiming is a red line abot
| twitter.
|
| Given that we know Parler is offering a bounty for users, how
| much did they pay CNBC for the puff piece?
| sethbannon wrote:
| In describing the site as a bastion of free speech, the Parler
| CEO says "If you can say it on the street of New York, you can
| say it on Parler."
|
| But, according to the article, "the app doesn't allow terrorist
| organizations or support for terrorism, the sharing of false
| rumors, violent language (what the site describes as 'fighting
| words') toward others, blackmail or pornography."
|
| Last I was in NYC, "fighting words" were most certainly allowed,
| as was pornography, as was the sharing of false rumors (most of
| the time). Seems like he's just drawing a different arbitrary
| line and trying to claim he's a purist for free speech.
| Traster wrote:
| That's because none of what he said was true, it was
| signalling.
| froogle wrote:
| You have to be careful: given a rallying cry of free speech and
| no censorship, the main appeal of the platform is going to be
| attracting those holding unpopular opinions.
|
| This happened with the mass exodus from Reddit to Voat of
| r/the_donald and similar, and I absolutely can see it happening
| here. Voat became host to a ton of toxic communities.
|
| And because of that, it's going to push more orthodox people
| people away from the site towards Twitter in a self-reinforcing
| loop.
|
| The plan for the site to get a broad range of opinions (in this
| case, the bounty of $20k for a prominent liberal) seems doomed as
| a result.
|
| Still - hopefully the founders have learned from Voat and have
| plans in action to stop it before it gets too stuck in the cycle.
| The bounty is an interesting idea, though I don't think it'll be
| strong enough to break the perverse social dynamics involved.
| More competition with Twitter is a good thing.
| GEBBL wrote:
| You know someone's a wanker if you see Parler on their phone.
| Could be useful in this way.
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