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We need an irony button.I will never get over the delicious irony of people championing places like Parler as bastions of free speech...on Christianforums, a site that would likely ban them if they posted the average Parler post.
Yep, when your maximum possible market share is in the range of 70-150 million (compared to multiple billion for other social networks), you're shooting yourself in the foot out of the gate. Then there's the issue of too many competitors fighting over that small market share. Parler, Rumble, Mike Lindell's new thing, and I feel like there's another 2-3 that I'm forgetting and/or haven't heard of, are all trying to grab that relatively small audience, and none has been particularly successful, so they've all got a small chunk of the proportion of their potential audience who has any interest in social media AND is willing to switch off their preferred platforms. That's not a recipe for profit.The problem is that Mike and all those other 'alternatives' are handicapping themselves. They're trying to appeal to a relatively small audience - conservatives in America.
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.Check again lol
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)
Amazing no-one ever thought of just starting a new company that could just immediately replace two of the biggest Internet giants on the planet...
Also isn't this kind of assuming Liddell has any money left after Dominion get through with their billion dollar lawsuit against him?
We'll see.Like virtually every other "conservative" alternative, I predict this will wind up being another cesspool of simple-minded, lowbrow fear-mongering. If it even gets off the ground in the first place.
Noting that before Wallstreetbets successfully took down prominent hedge funds, the hedge funds were not perceived as having any particular fatal weakness either.The comparison to GME is faulty because the hedge funds who shorted GME essentially walked themselves into a trap, hoping that nobody would notice. WSB noticed and pounced. It's not unlike that trope of westerns wherein a party of travelers takes a shortcut through a narrow canyon only to be waylaid by Indians or bandits hiding in the cliffs above them, capitalizing on the party's lack of escape routes. There is no comparison to be made between them and large mainstream platforms like Youtube and Twitter; those platforms have no fatal weakness to exploit.
We'll see.
Odds would certainly seem to be against Lindell. Still, many successful people leverage one successful venture into additional successful ventures. The characteristics which allowed them to achieve one success often allow them to achieve additional success.
Noting that before Wallstreetbets successfully took down prominent hedge funds, the hedge funds were not perceived as having a fatal weakness.
Anyone who believes that Youtube and Twitter are without fatal weaknesses, hasn't been paying attention.
MySpace."MyPlatform"
What is their fatal weakness and how would Mike exploit that?Anyone who believes that Youtube and Twitter are without fatal weaknesses, hasn't been paying attention.
So one form of censorship is replaced with another. There's nothing about that model I care to participate in.When I post my opinion on sites like that, I get shouted down and called a lot of things, most of which I can't repeat here. I also get accused of being a government troll. Also, I usually get dozens of downvotes.