I remember all that well. I actually had a Parler account at the time because I was trying to get away from Facebook censorship that had me constantly in jail and wiped out the Freedom group that I administered. As I recall it was mainly Amazon's action that took them down.
I believe they gave notice on a Friday night that they were going…
I remember all that well. I actually had a Parler account at the time because I was trying to get away from Facebook censorship that had me constantly in jail and wiped out the Freedom group that I administered. As I recall it was mainly Amazon's action that took them down.
I believe they gave notice on a Friday night that they were going to shut down their servers in 48 hours. It proved impossible to find replacement servers on that short time line and in fact I think it was almost a year before they were able to get back online. After that happened I immediately canceled my Amazon Prime account and have never gone back, but sadly I guess there were not enough people who felt strongly enough about Free Speech to do them much damage.
I'm not sure removing the app from the Apple app store was that big a blow. I think if you already had the app it still would have worked, except for the server problem. Removing the app just prevented them from getting new customers. There was fear that Apple would do the same with the Telegram app, but it is still there.
It's harder to cut the iPhone out of my life, especially when Google took the same action against Tommy on the same day! I am eagerly awaiting Elon to introduce a Free Speech phone. Not sure what he is waiting for, but he may have been threatened that if he does they will shut down X, or at least remove it from the app store.
When the two major phone providers are acting in concert to censor Free Speech, then we do live in a controlled world. Unfortunately I have very little hope that the Biden Justice Department will do anything to stop this.
I agree. The fact that Apple (and Google) took it off their app stores didn't affect the ability of people who already had it to access Parler. It just stunted Parler's growth. I also agree that Amazon's action was the most damaging, because even if you couldn't get the app., you could still get to it with Parler's web interface. By taking down their server, that was gone.
My memory is that Parler was able to get back online in 3 months, but it was still problematic. They were able to back up the user profile information from Amazon, before their server was taken down, but all of the posting data was destroyed. Parler didn't have the time nor the storage capacity to back that up. So, after Parler came back up, and people were able to log in again, all their posts, and comment history were gone.
Shortly after they came back online, they went down again for maybe a month(?), and then were back again. I don't remember what the second outage was about, but by that point, most people were frustrated with it, from what I saw, and left it behind. The service seemed pretty dead after that, with a few exceptions.
Parler shut down last year for lack of revenue. I remember another company bought them, and said they were going to turn it into (I think) some sort of e-commerce business, getting away from social media completely, because, "It's no use competing against Twitter."
According to Wikipedia, new ownership bought Parler in Dec. 2023. I have been getting emails from them which link to a Parler blog that seems to be a news aggregator. Not sure if the social media app is up and running again, but they say they are going to try. Good luck.
I was one of those who gave up on them a long time ago, and the whole landscape has changed while they were out of commission. To be honest the original technology was kind of clunky, so unless they totally re-do that they will not get much interest.
Other options developed, like Truth Social, and GETTR, after Parler was taken down by Big Tech. I think free speech advocates learned some crucial lessons from watching what happened to Parler.
I remember all that well. I actually had a Parler account at the time because I was trying to get away from Facebook censorship that had me constantly in jail and wiped out the Freedom group that I administered. As I recall it was mainly Amazon's action that took them down.
I believe they gave notice on a Friday night that they were going to shut down their servers in 48 hours. It proved impossible to find replacement servers on that short time line and in fact I think it was almost a year before they were able to get back online. After that happened I immediately canceled my Amazon Prime account and have never gone back, but sadly I guess there were not enough people who felt strongly enough about Free Speech to do them much damage.
I'm not sure removing the app from the Apple app store was that big a blow. I think if you already had the app it still would have worked, except for the server problem. Removing the app just prevented them from getting new customers. There was fear that Apple would do the same with the Telegram app, but it is still there.
It's harder to cut the iPhone out of my life, especially when Google took the same action against Tommy on the same day! I am eagerly awaiting Elon to introduce a Free Speech phone. Not sure what he is waiting for, but he may have been threatened that if he does they will shut down X, or at least remove it from the app store.
When the two major phone providers are acting in concert to censor Free Speech, then we do live in a controlled world. Unfortunately I have very little hope that the Biden Justice Department will do anything to stop this.
I agree. The fact that Apple (and Google) took it off their app stores didn't affect the ability of people who already had it to access Parler. It just stunted Parler's growth. I also agree that Amazon's action was the most damaging, because even if you couldn't get the app., you could still get to it with Parler's web interface. By taking down their server, that was gone.
My memory is that Parler was able to get back online in 3 months, but it was still problematic. They were able to back up the user profile information from Amazon, before their server was taken down, but all of the posting data was destroyed. Parler didn't have the time nor the storage capacity to back that up. So, after Parler came back up, and people were able to log in again, all their posts, and comment history were gone.
Shortly after they came back online, they went down again for maybe a month(?), and then were back again. I don't remember what the second outage was about, but by that point, most people were frustrated with it, from what I saw, and left it behind. The service seemed pretty dead after that, with a few exceptions.
Parler shut down last year for lack of revenue. I remember another company bought them, and said they were going to turn it into (I think) some sort of e-commerce business, getting away from social media completely, because, "It's no use competing against Twitter."
According to Wikipedia, new ownership bought Parler in Dec. 2023. I have been getting emails from them which link to a Parler blog that seems to be a news aggregator. Not sure if the social media app is up and running again, but they say they are going to try. Good luck.
I was one of those who gave up on them a long time ago, and the whole landscape has changed while they were out of commission. To be honest the original technology was kind of clunky, so unless they totally re-do that they will not get much interest.
Other options developed, like Truth Social, and GETTR, after Parler was taken down by Big Tech. I think free speech advocates learned some crucial lessons from watching what happened to Parler.
I had 4 Farcebake accounts, all in jail at the same time
good times
but way to much work, and I did not want to support a perverted pedopathic business