Based on our record, Parler seems to be a lot more popular than Minds. While we know about 26 links to Parler, we've tracked only 1 mention of Minds. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
There are other projects like minds.com which is also starting to catch some attention. My biggest concern is that the big tech companies catch these trends and start to more actively censor their search results or in other way hinder their growth such as lobbying for stricter regulation to take out any competition. Tech such as recommendation systems run by cost and competence intensive machine-learning is also... Source: over 2 years ago
"Trump good" is not an effective business model either: https://parler.com/. Source: almost 1 year ago
"No reasonable person believes that a Twitter clone just for conservatives is a viable business any more.". Source: about 1 year ago
Parler was shut down last week. See parler.com for the April 14 announcement. Source: about 1 year ago
See press release at https://parler.com/. Source: about 1 year ago
There's obviously nothing stopping Parler from moving their application to another platform as they've clearly done so. In fact, in software development it's highly encouraged to not have "vendor lock-in". There's also nothing forcing Apple, Google, and Amazon to allow applications in their app store. In the case of Android, at least, the "main" app store isn't the only way to get an application on the platform. Source: over 1 year ago
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