How come Quillette hasn’t stepped into the breach by standing up a Parler-lite 
It’s like this is a heaven-sent opportunity for them to level up a tier
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Though you’d need a scaling expert, having participated in setting up a modestly active mastodon, this really is not that hard. There’s an audience of tens of millions up for grabs. Maybe there just hadn’t been enough time and there will be a bunch of land-grab efforts soon.
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Nobody is actually defending the stated line of concern and building a pure paradigm free-speech platform. And there’s enough billionaires pretending to defend that line that they could even set up a CDN network and a data center.
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I don’t care to convince anyone of my own position on these matters, but I do care about vague suggestions of monopoly and “de facto public square” crap. That’s just not true and I don’t want it being accepted as such. Twitter is *a* public square, not *the* public square.
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This is what is known in the business as a high-maintenance audience. A crowd it’s costly to serve a self-speaking platform to, but doesn’t fit the “speak for the voiceless” pattern either.
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Possibly true, but a) there are/have been many brilliant techies who are/would have been Trumpies (Shockley, Metcalfe,... Palmer Luckey probably counts too) b) there are many who probably can’t fix their own tech problems (artists etc) who I do want to hear fromhttps://twitter.com/the_aiju/status/1348048061755498507 …
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It’s not that they can’t do what’s necessary. It’s that they know they’ll never be the majority, and they want recognition of their preferred rules of engagement on the majority platform. They don’t want to admit they’re merely disliked by a majority without being oppressed.
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So their options are to either get autocratic imposition of their preferred rules (say whatever, whenever, to whoever, without consequences) or hide disingenuously behind pretended belief in lofty principles they argue should be installed above an imagined tyranny of the majority
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maybe a bit too snarky, but: if they were good at fixing problems they wouldn’t be in the complaining-about-problems business
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i think you would either need to set up an entire independent advertising ecosystem. Or base your webzone on a subscription model: where payment processors could at any point take a big huge Crap Shit on ur forehead
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There also isnt a lot of money in it as far as i can tell. FOr example /pol/ is the classic of a webzone where anyone can post rancid politics shit and not get banned. By all indications the revenue for teh entire site its a part of, supports One guy (mods and jannies arent paid)
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I think the issue of building a platform of that basis is you either need a very patient benevolent dictator who is willing to accept it may not ever be profitable, or engage in some amount of moderation to keep it within the law and/or keep the userbase happy
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