Looks like Parler is back online. It was spotty yesterday but I’ve got a good connection this morning. Anyone else?
Update- now I can’t get in again. Thinking it will happen just will need to be patient. Yes there’s Gab and Locals and a few others out there. At this point we don’t know which one will be the dominant twitter alternative so it’s good to keep an eye on a number of them.
Blogs still work great though!
2nd Update– the full feed is working for me now.
Doesn’t work for me
Me either. “Networking Error”
Nope, still can’t log in. The log-in ‘next’ is dead. I think Parler is dead too, but it will walk a few more miles before keeling over. Far too much bullshit around that platform to hold one’s interest. Check out gab.com. It’s bit like going to church at times, but you can always sit in back with the cool kids. It is a free speech site and the site itself is superior to Parler’s buggy shit.
X 2. Yep.
I wanted to put this on the ‘tip’s page, but there isn’t a current one up at the moment, I though you might like this item anyway. Forgive me. …….. Then read this fun piece.
This played out dramatically last week in a telephone parley between Mr. Biden and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over the governor’s refusal to lock-down his state. The world-famous Dr. Fauci was also on the call, in which Mr. Biden threatened to curtail American citizens travel to Florida by road and air — since an offshoot of Covid-19 policy has been to drive a huge demographic exodus from the economically failing states of New York, Illinois, and California down there. He also threatened to withhold federal funding to Florida and deny the state access to Covid-19 vaccines. Dr. Fauci chimed in, “Governor, do you want to be responsible for reinfecting the nation? Truth is, we don’t even know how effective current vaccines are against the UK strain.”
DeSantis told Dr. Fauci he trusted his own state health authorities over financially incentivized federal officials. The conclusion of the conference call went like this:
How much do you stand to earn from these vaccines, Dr. Fauci? And, Joe, if you continue with this course of action, I will authorize the state National Guard to protect the movement of Floridians,” DeSantis said.
“Address me as Mr. President or President Biden,” Biden said.
“I will not, and you can go fuck yourself,” DeSantis said before hanging up.
Hmmm. Now, that got right to the point, didn’t it? And consider this was not just Citizen Joe Blow mouthing off to alleged President Joe B, but the governor of a populous state. And what if it suggests a trend?
Another obvious and disconcerting irony in that affair was, of course, that Mr. Biden seeks to restrict the movement of people across Florida’s borders for fear of spreading new strains of Covid-19, while he insolently authorizes thousands of illegal aliens to cross our border with Mexico daily, with no testing for the virus. Could Mr. Biden’s intentions look any worse?
There is a Reader Tips thread, and that account has no legitimate source or secondary confirmation that it happened. Disantis office denies.
I can log in, but the feeds refuse to scroll in Chrome, Brave or Edge. Can’t log in in my Android phone.
Why bother with Parler when a true free-speech alternative exists, namely Gab?
I am in and it was good
Hit and miss. Seems too many users during the day causes it to crash. Can’t get on it right now but was able to get on during the night.
I simply have to sign on despite never bothering with twitter.
Even if I could, I would never join Parler.
Unless you have a cell phone number you’re screwed and can’t join.
Despite their technical failings, I’m sticking to gab.
I never gave them a telephone number and originally set up on a PC.
Your participation is somewhat restricted when you sign up that way. You cannot insert links or images when you comment on other users’ posts.
I’ve tried to join Parler multiple times in the past, and no matter what I do it ends in failure. It keeps asking me for a cell phone number. I’ve even tried giving fake numbers but to no avail. Needless to say I’ve had it with Parler, and I don’t care anymore to join them.
I had a Parler account. I noticed that the email address was incorrect, so tried to change it. There was no way that I could find to change the email address, so I had the bright ida of deleting the account and re-creating it.
Delete was easy. Then tried to create a new account. Apparently, delete means something different to Parler, because it refused the new account because the cell number was associated with a deleted account.
Emailed support and they were not helpful. Tried again, asking them to re-instate the account and change the email – Nope. Won’t do that. So what do I do? The only semi-sensible answer I received was to “buy a new phone”.
So their business model assumes that a phone number will only ever be assigned to one person, for life.
They forget that there are a limited number of numbers, and quite a lot of churn as people move, change carrier, get a new job and hand back the work phone etc. etc. Apparently, none of these numbers will ever be re-usable.
Then there is the question of why the fixation on having to have a cxell phone anyway?
And it does have to be a cell phone. I tried various services for SMS to give a different number, but their code checks that it is a cell phone. SMS is not sufficient.
Why does it have to be a cell phone?
I can only think of two reasons: It can be tracked, and it can have software installed on it.
This makes me think that there is more to Parler than a messaging system. Sounds more like a Chinese model system to me.
The Parler CEO was on with Glenn Beck this morning, admitted to some growing pains as they get it back up.
He also said they are not taking new customers just yet, so I will have to wait.
And, your old data will come back up in short order, they decided against putting everything up at once.
Parler now has 20-point based hate speech system for getting banned? That’s going to work just great…. For the deciders (see Twitter)
Just use Gab.
Save yourself a lot of future pain.
https://nationalfile.com/breaking-pro-free-speech-parler-bans-milo-yiannopoulos-for-offensive-jokes/
Technologically, Parler is a joke: https://bigleaguepolitics.com/parlers-new-hosting-provider-bans-all-hateful-material-setting-the-stage-for-massive-censorship/
They’re amateurs and rubes. The signal to noise ratio over at Gab is worse, but at least they know what they’re doing.
Gab automatically sets you up to follow a few high-volume posters.
Presumably so that you don’t sit there staring at a blank screen wondering where everyone is.
Once you have followed a few people and groups that interest you, you can easily suppress those initial “follows”, and the S/N ratio improves enormously.
I am undecided if the initial sign-up is a good or bad idea.
Because gab is so freedom of speech, you’re going to get a lot of true unabashed racists on there. Particularly of the anti semite variety. The beauty is though that they’re very easy to block. After awhile you’ll very rarely see them pop up.
Get on gab!! The only true free site.