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Susurro 29 points ago +29 / -0

He is only on Gab: https://gab.com/codemonkey

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OrangeElvis 9 points ago +9 / -0

Thank you, pede. Gab seems to be down or sloooow as hell.

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Susurro 14 points ago +14 / -0

Getting bombarded right now. Torba is literally installing new servers every day to try and keep up. Hold the line! It'll be worth it.

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sentient-potato 4 points ago +4 / -0

Yeah, they were down yesterday, fast this morning and slow again. They're scaling as fast as they can.

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CisSiberianOrchestra 4 points ago +4 / -0

Gab and Parler have both been slow since yesterday because they're receiving a huge influx of new users trying to escape big tech censorship.

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ontothefuture 2 points ago +2 / -0

James Woods has the same issue with Parler. Securitywise, they want your phone number to sign up and a copy of your drivers license to get verified. Yet, somehow there are verified Codemonkey & james woods accounts.

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jstressman 17 points ago +17 / -0

Parler REALLY needs to get a grip on it's validated accounts. They have tons of Donald Trump accounts too that are "validated", but obviously aren't Trump.

If people cannot trust who they're talking to, they're going to get pissed off.

There are a lot of similar little irritations about Parler. The way you navigate the site is pretty garbage as well. It isn't consistent, and it isn't intuitive. For example when you want to view the comments on a post, you can't just click the little comments icon... that only goes to you leaving a comment. Further, you can't just hit the "back" button on your phone... that takes you out of the site completely rather than just backing back to the main stream. Trying to look at replies to a comment from your notifications is a total nightmare and almost impossible.

I really want Parler to be another viable platform, but they really need to get their heads out of their asses and address these glaring shortcomings. NOW is the time when people are looking for viable alternatives to get off Twitter and they need to have their proverbial ducks in a row instead of the current state of apparently having their heads up their asses.

It's bad enough that I'm considering focusing more on Gab.

I'll be honest, I don't mind having two alternatives that both do well... Gab is a bit more of a wild west place, whereas Parler is a bit more curated. I don't mind a site with a bit more curation to allow a better signal to noise ratio. But the problem is that I know it will make Parler the more publicly palatable option, and if people can't use it comfortably because the user interface is garbage, they're just going to go back to Twitter.

I'm not sure how to get Parler to address these problems before it's too late. :(

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0io- 7 points ago +7 / -0

Ron (codemonkey) thinks parler is a waste of time because they rely on AWS Amazon servers, and Amazon will just pull the plug on them. He also thinks they have other security issues, and he has reached out to them with nobody ever calling him back.

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unusedqrcode 7 points ago +7 / -0

He's right. It's only a matter of time. https://twitter.com/AMZNforClimate/status/1347799256883552259

Enough is enough. Amazon hosts Parler on @awscloud

As Amazon workers, we demand Amazon deny Parler services until it removes posts inciting violence, including at the Presidential inauguration.

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cannoli9116 6 points ago +6 / -0

^ this. He trashed Parler all the time on Twitter and said he would never use their platform.

he's 100% right. security issues aside Amazon will just pull the plug on them imminently

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BasedInFact 3 points ago +3 / -0

Dooted, with the note that nobody is going to go back to Twitter.

Nobody.

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sentient-potato 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yeah, it's nigh impossible to find the right person.

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0io- 6 points ago +6 / -0

His real account is gab.com/codemonkey

Last time I looked he hadn't said a whole lot recently, but that's Ron's only social media account right now

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Snailboat 1 point ago +1 / -0

GAB is under cloudflair too.. and they might be under DDOS attacks now. BTW. Ron call it!

"Parler runs on AWS. AWS will ban Parler sooner than later."

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EricTX 1 point ago +1 / -0

Anything CodeMonkey says is not real.

Fixed it for you.

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HiddenDekuScrub 1 point ago +1 / -0

Making certain claims? Like for free commemorative coins or something?

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Surfsup 1 point ago +1 / -0

We pretty much figured that out at this point

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BasedInFact 3 points ago +3 / -0

You’re fine with all the rest of them, though, right?

Well, only with our enemies. Yeah, we know.

Just a note, before anyone else is tempted to beclown xirselves like this again: nobody honest here is intrinsically hostile toward foreigners; only towards the foreign powers themselves hostile to our rights and freedoms.

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CarpandArrow 2 points ago +2 / -0

He read the big ass manual for dominion and was trying to make sense of it after the election. His tweets have always been against libs. Is he supposed to be batman? Done more for Trump so far then 90% of people on twitter

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