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> Why weren't they dockerized and prepared to move containers and backups at the drop of a hat? Why didn't they have hot spares elsewhere?

Maybe the techies with those skills dont want to work there and so the existing employees might not have the skills to do that.

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Exactly, these people don't want to put in the work. They just want to use shortcuts, but just as you're not entitled to an account Twitter, you're also not entitled to a cloud service provider.

Parler hasn't seen 1/10th the the deplatforming that The Pirate Bay has seen for example, yet that managed to survive throughout the years and is still up now. The reality is that whoever was running Parler had no clue what they were doing.

Its more that nothing they do can overcome the fact that everyone has blacklisted them. You can't run a site on the internet without having ISPs and DNS registers on your side at least. Even if they rehost somewhere else they will just be hit with the next level of blocks and have wasted the money rehosting.

Again, TPB, Sci-hub and many others have done it for decades. It's nothing new.

The freaking stormfront is still up, so I doubt Parler will not find a way too. The question is what fraction of their users will they lose over it?

Via a tor hidden service iirc. This would seriously limit how many users they can have

Well, you made me visit it... :/

No, it's on the open Web.

Who says it is the end of the story for Parler? They came on the scene many years after Twitter and Facebook. They have a lot of catching up to do, with a lot less money at their disposal. In the early days, Twitter ran on Ruby on Rails, hardly a scalable decision, either.

Aiding and abetting insurrectionists isn't a good look.

To you and others, perhaps, but there is clearly a sizable portion of the population that is either neutral or positive.

Large divergences in worldview and values, combined with universal policies, create underserved market segments, and thus opportunities.

"Aid and abet" and "insurrection" are part of a framing that not everyone accepts.

what a ridiculous comment. it was a crowd of some of the dumbest people alive - some attempting to kidnap, injure, and kill lawmakers, some thinking that by entering the building they'd find an OVERTHROW GOVT button. Idiots.

anyone that tries to both sides this shit deserves eternal shame

Some people are less concerned about "the look".

I personally just want a social network were I don't have to worry about being banned every minute. (Not sure if PArler qualifies, but I suppose it is their selling point).

Depends how much time it will take them to be back up again : if it takes too long, most of their potential users will have moved on, for instance to Gab.

If people were happy with Gab, Parler would not have been started, I suppose.

Yes, but it was most likely because Gab could never get on Apple's App Store and was banned from Google's Play Store before Parler was even founded.

Funny how it's working out now…

If a company can’t attract skilled workers who want to build its product, that sounds like a great vote against its existence.

What makes you think they can't attract talent? There are plenty of libertarians in tech that would be willing to work with them, including this SRE right here. I think they had other issues. Perhaps they were just out of their league and didn't have the leadership capable of fighting fires while simultaneously recruiting, scaling, policing, etc. Typical successful startup skills that many people don't have.

I’m responding to a person who made this assertion, but designing your site in a way that non-users can archive all media uploaded to it seems like a good sign!

Difficult to compete with companies that have billions of dollars to spend.

The Mercers have billions they could spend on this:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/parler-backed-by-mercer-family-...

Just because the invested some money in that, doesn't mean they should bet all their wealth on it?

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