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Parler, the 'Free Speech' platform is already banning people

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As Predicted: Parler Is Banning Users It Doesn't Like
Conservatives are flocking to a new 'free speech' social media app that has started banning liberal users

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Friday November 20 2020, @12:17PM (3 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Friday November 20 2020, @12:17PM (#1079687) Journal
    Very different mechanics though. With usenet it's about groups. You follow a group, you get every post to it, spammers make it unusable.

    But with this, there would be no group to follow or spam out of existence. Just one-to-one relationships. So spammers wouldn't have a group to spam, they could only broadcast to those that specifically follow them, and would get unfollowed quite quickly by anyone that doesn't like spam.
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  • (Score: 2) by dry on Friday November 20 2020, @03:40PM (2 children)

    by dry (223) on Friday November 20 2020, @03:40PM (#1079779) Journal

    Seems if it is 2-way, the circle that you follow would still quickly grow. You follow person A, who posts something and you want to see the responses and respond to some of them. 1-way would likely get boring.
    I do admit to not knowing how things like twitter works besides statements from others having never used it.

    • (Score: 2) by Arik on Friday November 20 2020, @09:46PM (1 child)

      by Arik (4543) on Friday November 20 2020, @09:46PM (#1079978) Journal
      I won't claim to be an expert on it either but I know way more than I ever wanted to.

      I think what you're talking about is if you follow person A, who follows person B, but you don't follow person B, right? So either way person A effectively quotes and reposts what they're responding to, so that you can still see it, even if person B has banned you from their feed; at least as far as I understand that's how it works now, and how it would work P2P as well.
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      • (Score: 2) by dry on Saturday November 21 2020, @01:48AM

        by dry (223) on Saturday November 21 2020, @01:48AM (#1080051) Journal

        OK, then you're depending on quoting sanity., and judging by email, that might be a hope.
        Anyways, I'm happy with sites like this and some focused forums where off-topic is pretty clear and I almost never see politics. The cupcake forum should be free to kick off the barbecued meat people if they choose.
        I also seem to have got stuck doing a bit of support and do see political crap, I ignore it as it is off topic.