Am I the only one noticing a massive uptick in people attacking Parler and disputing its right to exist? They don't want to leave people anywhere to hide from their perfect world. They will never leave any of us alone.
They ban you from the mainstream site, and then when they find where you retreat to, they want that shut down to.
How do you counter that? It's unending.
Parler has a big problem in that it's not viewable without an account (and requiring a phone number to register). Social networks gain followers when posts on them spread around the internet and people who see them think "hey, that's cool, I want to see more of this" and they make an account. But you can't do that if you send around a link that just asks people to make an account first, most people won't do that. The normie appeal is practically zero.
In principle, I like the idea of a libcuck-free Twitter.
In practice, my trust is so low that I wouldn't sign up for a site requiring my real identity and tie it to my actual politics if it was run by my own brother and I helped write the code.
Parler is struggling to grow for the same reason Parler is necessary - we have transitioned into a low-trust, low-cohesion society.
I am able to view posts that are link without being signed into anything. Maybe this is a new feature they are working on.
Example:
https://parler.com/post/e4fd49b214464af6b454fb6129aba320