Yea all of this had already happened to gab with gab pivoting to activitypub a year or so ago to get around App Store bans. That the CEO didn’t plan for this is really a failure of leadership at Parler.
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One faction actively did everything they could to undermine an election through fraud and impropriety, everyone else didn’t.
That is the divide.
This is what gp is talking about, both sides believing they are righteously just while they consume media in their bubbles.
As to why the left doesn’t feel the same need, they are not censored as much on the major platforms as the major platforms are left leaning.
The catalyst for the recent Parler traffic was the Hunter Biden emails in which the New York Times were locked out of their Twitter for over a week for publishing a story. A lot of people viewed that as outright censorship that crossed the line so they went looking for somewhere where they could talk about it. That kind of censorship just doesn’t happen to the left because the right generally is more libertarian regarding free speech and permissive of speech in general.
Its also fun watching people try and type on your blank keycaps - they are all almost instantly lost at how to even start typing.
Developing with the library essentially comes down to protobuf serialization logic inside a router with the path being the name of your protocol, just like you would in rails or node, everything else is handled by the library. To talk to a peer over your protocol you just need their address on the network (public key), your protocol name and to serialize your protobuf data to be written over the network, the libraries handle dialing/routing through connected peers if its not possible to directly connect to the peer.