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<blockquote data-quote="MeymoonMan" data-source="post: 1337270" data-attributes="member: 12816"><p>If it ain't open source, <em>it ain't even humane or ethical</em>. If it ain't both open source <em>and</em> decentralized, then it ain't a solution, it ain't an option, and I ain't touching it.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">As a general rule of thumb, if you don't at the very least know your admin personally, that should be a <strong><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">big red flag</span></strong> for you.</span></span></p><p></p><p>I think we've been burnt too many times by unethical services, we better not make the mistake of choosing something that isn't really fundamentally different. From the looks of things, the free-speechiness of parler is entirely dependent on the ideology of its admin. If he has a change of heart and suddenly decides censorship is ok, you're screwed. Wouldn't it be better to choose a platform that guarantees free speech by the very structure of the system? You look at something like LBRY or the Fediverse or Matrix or even <em>Email </em>ffs... you can't be censored on any of those systems, because you can set up your own email/matrix/fediverse server any time, or ask your nerdy little bro to set one up for you, or find someone you know who already has a server. And then lbry actually just uses a blockchain (history can't be redacted). Does parler offer any of these things? Can I make my own parler server? Doesn't seem like it. Sounds like parler is just a big fat mistake. I don't want to be mean about it, because they might come around on that stuff, eventually, years down the road. I was mean about gab for a while, and eventually they came around, and made me feel bad about all of that. Now gab is just another node in the fediverse, and anyone can run their own gab server. The preservation of free speech on Gab no longer depends on Torba's ideology— just run your own server lol. That's cool stuff; Gab is pretty cool now. It's still full of boomers, but it's pretty cool. But yeah, parler is not the one. It's not the promised land. It doesn't even look enticing at all. Don't switch to parler. Don't spend any time on parler at all. It's not worth your time. And worse case scenario, it only exists to divert attention from the <em><strong>real</strong></em> twitter alternatives like pleroma and the like. Y'all would be better off joining <a href="https://shitposter.club" target="_blank">https://shitposter.club</a> or <a href="https://freespeechextremist.com" target="_blank">https://freespeechextremist.com</a> or something lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MeymoonMan, post: 1337270, member: 12816"] If it ain't open source, [I]it ain't even humane or ethical[/I]. If it ain't both open source [I]and[/I] decentralized, then it ain't a solution, it ain't an option, and I ain't touching it. [FONT=arial][SIZE=4]As a general rule of thumb, if you don't at the very least know your admin personally, that should be a [B][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]big red flag[/COLOR][/B] for you.[/SIZE][/FONT] I think we've been burnt too many times by unethical services, we better not make the mistake of choosing something that isn't really fundamentally different. From the looks of things, the free-speechiness of parler is entirely dependent on the ideology of its admin. If he has a change of heart and suddenly decides censorship is ok, you're screwed. Wouldn't it be better to choose a platform that guarantees free speech by the very structure of the system? You look at something like LBRY or the Fediverse or Matrix or even [I]Email [/I]ffs... you can't be censored on any of those systems, because you can set up your own email/matrix/fediverse server any time, or ask your nerdy little bro to set one up for you, or find someone you know who already has a server. And then lbry actually just uses a blockchain (history can't be redacted). Does parler offer any of these things? Can I make my own parler server? Doesn't seem like it. Sounds like parler is just a big fat mistake. I don't want to be mean about it, because they might come around on that stuff, eventually, years down the road. I was mean about gab for a while, and eventually they came around, and made me feel bad about all of that. Now gab is just another node in the fediverse, and anyone can run their own gab server. The preservation of free speech on Gab no longer depends on Torba's ideology— just run your own server lol. That's cool stuff; Gab is pretty cool now. It's still full of boomers, but it's pretty cool. But yeah, parler is not the one. It's not the promised land. It doesn't even look enticing at all. Don't switch to parler. Don't spend any time on parler at all. It's not worth your time. And worse case scenario, it only exists to divert attention from the [I][B]real[/B][/I] twitter alternatives like pleroma and the like. Y'all would be better off joining [URL]https://shitposter.club[/URL] or [URL]https://freespeechextremist.com[/URL] or something lol. [/QUOTE]
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