I can't believe right-wingers are going to fall for the same bullshit all over again.
They probably will, but it's not the worst thing that can happen, imo. As shit as it is, it's still an improvement over the situation we have on the rest of social media where even milquetoast conservastism has become bannable.
So long as gab exists, Gettr is better pipline to it than twitter will ever be.
The problem is that you're wasting your time and energy on something like Gettr. It's 2022 and there's 10 months until the midterm election. If people spend the next 9 months shilling Gettr, only to have Gettr get plug-pulled the same way Parler was ... That creates mass confusion and demoralization at a critical time.
Gab is the only communication platform that's even close to being able to handle the traffic necessary that isn't built on big tech.
Right wingers need to stop thinking platforms consist of just one owner and site. Federation is censorship resistant. Relying on one person to host one site for toothless conservstism is very much a conservative mindset and that's partly why they're losing.
All "online" decentralization efforts are still centralized to some extent in some manner. Most people don't care about the software system, they just want ease of use. Any user interface using some sort of decentralized effort still has to be programmed and maintained by people, which can at any time decide to start censoring. Since it's decentralized, you can't stop them from censoring either. It's all the same in the end. Those that control the software can censor. The reason these decentralized communication software interfaces never take-off is because of the lack of software supporting it. You aren't going to attract mass adoption if the usability and interface resembles that of some dos program 30 years ago. As soon as the software becomes good, it tends to become centralized.
Take for example email. Email was a decentralized system where you could connect to port 25 on any mail system anywhere and have it forward your mail to other systems, hold it cached for days or weeks if they were offline, and eventually get it to the recipient. Minds somebody with the data has to be online when you want it, so email was even way more decentralized than Minds.
Google has strong-armed changes so email can only be sent encrypted by whitelisted, certified servers and have forced most other companies to do the same. So now you effectively can't run your own email server on your own domain because nobody will talk to it.
So Minds could be even more vulnerable than Gab since it's probably a lot easier to turn a small group of developers than a single fanatic.
The only real competition gab could have is though minds, but ottman needs to take some fucking measures to attract users who have no issues with offensive pornographic artwork because having more features than gab and no leak scandals will not cut it.
Okay bud. Let's concede this cultural space to degenerate leftists as well. We already gave them schools, news media, television, movies, mainstream fiction, and the government. Surely if we keep our heads high and our principles intact, we'll win in the marketplace of ideas! What's that, we're not allowed to speak in the marketplace if we're not 4x shot up? Well golly gee
I can't believe right-wingers are going to fall for the same bullshit all over again.
I don't like worshipping one man like a Torba but there are no alternatives to Gab until there is one. There isn't one yet.
They probably will, but it's not the worst thing that can happen, imo. As shit as it is, it's still an improvement over the situation we have on the rest of social media where even milquetoast conservastism has become bannable.
So long as gab exists, Gettr is better pipline to it than twitter will ever be.
The problem is that you're wasting your time and energy on something like Gettr. It's 2022 and there's 10 months until the midterm election. If people spend the next 9 months shilling Gettr, only to have Gettr get plug-pulled the same way Parler was ... That creates mass confusion and demoralization at a critical time.
Gab is the only communication platform that's even close to being able to handle the traffic necessary that isn't built on big tech.
No one has to use gettr. Go straight to Gab.
You will never ever mainstream conservative thought via Gab.
Ten year ago I thought twitter was retarded. It still is retarded, but it took off and a ton of politicians use it now.
The Fediverse.
Right wingers need to stop thinking platforms consist of just one owner and site. Federation is censorship resistant. Relying on one person to host one site for toothless conservstism is very much a conservative mindset and that's partly why they're losing.
All "online" decentralization efforts are still centralized to some extent in some manner. Most people don't care about the software system, they just want ease of use. Any user interface using some sort of decentralized effort still has to be programmed and maintained by people, which can at any time decide to start censoring. Since it's decentralized, you can't stop them from censoring either. It's all the same in the end. Those that control the software can censor. The reason these decentralized communication software interfaces never take-off is because of the lack of software supporting it. You aren't going to attract mass adoption if the usability and interface resembles that of some dos program 30 years ago. As soon as the software becomes good, it tends to become centralized.
Take for example email. Email was a decentralized system where you could connect to port 25 on any mail system anywhere and have it forward your mail to other systems, hold it cached for days or weeks if they were offline, and eventually get it to the recipient. Minds somebody with the data has to be online when you want it, so email was even way more decentralized than Minds.
Google has strong-armed changes so email can only be sent encrypted by whitelisted, certified servers and have forced most other companies to do the same. So now you effectively can't run your own email server on your own domain because nobody will talk to it.
So Minds could be even more vulnerable than Gab since it's probably a lot easier to turn a small group of developers than a single fanatic.
Gettr is crashing and burning.
The only real competition gab could have is though minds, but ottman needs to take some fucking measures to attract users who have no issues with offensive pornographic artwork because having more features than gab and no leak scandals will not cut it.
It's a huge waste of time and energy. RW should have no use for someone who won't make a goddamn commitment to free speech.
Mastodon seems to be growing at a decent pace. It's federated, so anyone can host their own node.
I keep meaning to do Fediverse stuff, I just don't know where to begin.
Okay bud. Let's concede this cultural space to degenerate leftists as well. We already gave them schools, news media, television, movies, mainstream fiction, and the government. Surely if we keep our heads high and our principles intact, we'll win in the marketplace of ideas! What's that, we're not allowed to speak in the marketplace if we're not 4x shot up? Well golly gee