Mike Lindell is developing his own social media platform to replace YouTube and Twitter

[Pommer]

I hadn't looked for an hour or so. GME is making a really interesting chart today. Up around $350, down around $200 and now back up some to about $250. We'll see where it all settles out. Regardless, the overall trajectory of Gamestop stock over the past few months has been steadily up.

Against the odds, I might add. (just to bring the matter back to Lindell's chances)

This is the after effects of the hedge funds’ short positions.

There were many more (millions of) shares shorted than were/are in circulation. People and institutions that held short positions needed to buy back the stock at ridiculously inflated prices (or declare bankruptcy, generally a “frowned-upon” thing for stock traders), to cover their positions.
As the short-squeeze eases, savvy investors will look to short it AGAIN because the company cannot maintain it’s worth, as the stock price only went up due to the original short positions.
In two years it’ll be @$8.00\sh

 

[mark46]

He need somewhere to place his infomercials for his drug cures.

 

[mark46]

How will he compete with TrumpNews? Surely, Trump will start his own network. Money is continuing to come in since he has asked his fans to give money only to his PAC, and not to give money to anyone other Republican group or individual.

From the "You dared me to do it", files: Mike Lindell is developing his own social media platform to replace YouTube and Twitter | 'Every single influencer person on the planet can come there'

"We're launching this big platform so all the voices of our country can come back and start telling it like it is again," said Lindell ...

"You will not need YouTube. You won't need these places. So it will be where everything can be told, because we've got to get our voices back," he explained. "People will be able to talk and not walk on eggshells."

Lindell said that he had been developing the platform for four years and that it was going to be broader than Twitter.
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The odds may be against him, but time will tell.

 

[SkyWriting]

From the "You dared me to do it", files: Mike Lindell is developing his own social media platform to replace YouTube and Twitter | 'Every single influencer person on the planet can come there'

"We're launching this big platform so all the voices of our country can come back and start telling it like it is again," said Lindell ...

"You will not need YouTube. You won't need these places. So it will be where everything can be told, because we've got to get our voices back," he explained. "People will be able to talk and not walk on eggshells."

Lindell said that he had been developing the platform for four years and that it was going to be broader than Twitter.
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The odds may be against him, but time will tell.

Nobody has ever launched a big platform. They start as small platforms and grow very slowly.
My prediction is that he is paying somebody who will never deliver a working website and is pocketing his money very regularly. His claims are just the promises his programmers are feeding him to get development payments. Nobody with programming experience would make such claims about dominating current industry leaders.

 

[KCfromNC]

"These people achieved something remarkable, so that must mean these other peoples incredibly unlikely venture is more likely to succeed!"

Fits in with the idea that everyone can be multi-billionaires if they just pulled on their bootstraps a bit harder.

 

[trunks2k]

Nobody has ever launched a big platform.

You generally launch a big platform and go small->big when you are starting platform that does something new and there's not huge competitors in that space already. Things like Parler, Gab, and whatever Lindell is proposing aren't really offering anything new; just less moderation. And that only appeals to small segment of the overall population. Most people post things on facebook, twitter, youtube, etc that will never (or very rarely) run afoul of the rules. What incentive does that big user base have to move to a totally new platform? Especially one that has gained a reputation for being used primarily by people of a certain political ideology?

 

[driewerf]

From the "You dared me to do it", files: Mike Lindell is developing his own social media platform to replace YouTube and Twitter | 'Every single influencer person on the planet can come there'

"We're launching this big platform so all the voices of our country can come back and start telling it like it is again," said Lindell ...

"You will not need YouTube. You won't need these places. So it will be where everything can be told, because we've got to get our voices back," he explained. "People will be able to talk and not walk on eggshells."

Lindell said that he had been developing the platform for four years and that it was going to be broader than Twitter.
​

The odds may be against him, but time will tell.

So the conservatives need to retreat gather in their safe space echo chamber own social media. Can't they stand the heat of the kitchen?

 

[adrianmonk]

Nobody has ever launched a big platform. They start as small platforms and grow very slowly.
My prediction is that he is paying somebody who will never deliver a working website and is pocketing his money very regularly. His claims are just the promises his programmers are feeding him to get development payments. Nobody with programming experience would make such claims about dominating current industry leaders.

The dev payments are probably the lowest cost for him. He would most likely just create a site based on Mastodon (decentralized Twitter), Fediverse or Diaspora (decentralized Facebook style site).

When learning Ruby on Rails, the book I used created a facebook like site. Creating the site is easy, scaling it up to be stable with all the users ? Not so easy. And he would need a provider like AWS, Azure, GCP to have that high availability. And that's not cheap.

 

[SkyWriting]

The dev payments are probably the lowest cost for him. He would most likely just create a site based on Mastodon (decentralized Twitter), Fediverse or Diaspora (decentralized Facebook style site).

When learning Ruby on Rails, the book I used created a facebook like site. Creating the site is easy, scaling it up to be stable with all the users ? Not so easy. And he would need a provider like AWS, Azure, GCP to have that high availability. And that's not cheap.

There is only one issue of any importance - do the users think it is useful and worth their time.
That's why Facebook and Twitter will never be beat. The vast majority of users prefer less controversy and enjoy......cats and babies.

Anybody who thinks that cats and dogs and pleasant memes are not what people want is delirious. And that is the only reason that anybody has been "Censored" from the platforms is because they don't follow that guideline of being pleasant. Even if that guideline is not clearly stated.

 

[adrianmonk]

There is only one issue of any importance - do the users think it is useful and worth their time.
That's why Facebook and Twitter will never be beat. The vast majority of users prefer less controversy and enjoy......cats and babies.

Yep, users will need a compelling reason to switch. And yes, cats and babies, or in my case puppies /r/aww is one of my favorite subreddits. My point was just about the cost of developing a site, which is not that high, but keeping it running well ? That's expensive.

 

[driewerf]

There is only one issue of any importance - do the users think it is useful and worth their time.
That's why Facebook and Twitter will never be beat. The vast majority of users prefer less controversy and enjoy......cats and babies.

Anybody who thinks that cats and dogs and pleasant memes are not what people want is delirious. And that is the only reason that anybody has been "Censored" from the platforms is because they don't follow that guideline of being pleasant. Even if that guideline is not clearly stated.

Part of what you write is correct. but also because these platforms turn into echo chambers, and people want to connect with other opinion, themes etc. Wikipedia is not about babies or kittens, and yet Conservapedia will never replace it.

 

[Moral Orel]

We need an irony button.

I remember when we had a "creative" button. I used it to mark posts as lies, and people doing that is why we don't have such a button anymore.

 

[SkyWriting]

Part of what you write is correct. but also because these platforms turn into echo chambers, and people want to connect with other opinion, themes etc. Wikipedia is not about babies or kittens, and yet Conservapedia will never replace it.

Wikipedia is extremely pleasant and non-controversial.

 

[iluvatar5150]

The dev payments are probably the lowest cost for him. He would most likely just create a site based on Mastodon (decentralized Twitter), Fediverse or Diaspora (decentralized Facebook style site).

When learning Ruby on Rails, the book I used created a facebook like site. Creating the site is easy, scaling it up to be stable with all the users ? Not so easy. And he would need a provider like AWS, Azure, GCP to have that high availability. And that's not cheap.

And really, the difficulty with developing a FB-style site isn't even so much in the availability as it is the AI that curates the news feed and boosts the ad revenue. Maybe if MyBook gets going, it won't have enough traffic that any of the users will be at risk of having their feeds flooded with stuff they don't find engaging. But if it does, then they'll have to figure out a way to prioritize things.

 

[SkyWriting]

We need an irony button.

We can use the prayers button for irony.
And if you do it ironically you can make
the point by being ironic on purpose.
Which is fun.

 

[Pommer]

We can use the prayers button for irony.

Petitioning the Lord with prayer is not a valid Deist pastime, and might be taken as goading.

 

[driewerf]

We can use the prayers button for irony.

Petitioning the Lord with prayer is not a valid Deist pastime, and might be taken as goading.

It may be an option for atheists?

 

[SkyWriting]

It may be an option for atheists?

If intentionally used ironically it is a reasonable signal for responding to irony.
Much like a Christian would offer proof of anything. (Kid-ing)

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

I looked him up. He's just another crazy right extremist .

 

[Nithavela]

So one form of censorship is replaced with another. There's nothing about that model I care to participate in.

When the alt-right talks about free speech, they mean "free from objections".