geostationary sats have at least 500ms pings from customer to whatever server youre testing on. The main reason is that geostationary sats are very far away, so you have to wait for the signal to go from your satellite, to the sat, then back down to earth, then through whatever infrastructure it takes to get to the server. the there and back part is a huge part of the equation.
starlink is not geostationary, its low earth orbit, so pings can go down to 20ms in theory.
starlink is not geostationary, its low-earth orbit. that means its very, very close, but as a result each micro-sat only covers a small area. Since its both a small "cell" + is orbiting, starlink is really a "constellation" of microsats that zoom overhead.
The negatives are that the antennae on the consumer's side has to be a more complicated phased array antenna. But on the flip side you can get down to 20ms latency since the satellites are so much closer.
It tends to be harder. Centralized = a single point of failure. Decentralized = failure occurs only when you take down all the nodes on a network that are hosting the content.
The downside is that Decentralized tends to be harder to pull off on the efficiency and speed front.
I don't know why anyone wanted to use Parler. The developers can't get their shit together. The site has some serious issues with its code, and has had these issues for months as far as I can tell. At least Gab was made by people with software startup experience, is open source, and is some what decentralized as it runs on mastodon.
Maybe something like Element.io might be worth investigating. They recently absorbed the Gitter team, and Element itself is open source and so the TDW staff could setup its own matrix server to run a chatroom. Might prove to be a haven for TD.
However it happens, I think at this point it's the best option. There is no winning in a rigged system, and it makes no sense for elections to be decided by swing voters when everyone else is pretty set in their ways on either side (even when its supposedly not rigged).
Divorce, as long as its peaceful, seems preferable. There's no reconciling between rural texas and manhattan or portland etc.