Social Media Choices in Light of the Extreme Fascism of the Left

Wow, it certainly didn’t take long for the claws of the extreme fascists on the Left to come to bear. President Trump isn’t even out of office and:

• He’s been permanently banned on Twitter (and several other services)
• Lots of Christians and conservatives have been banned from Twitter
• The Parler app has been banned on Apple and Google’s stores
• Amazon has kicked Parler out of AWS

Is everyone feeling the warmth and unity of Joe Biden’s administration? The Globalists are more than happy to continue their fascist practices.

This has left many reeling for “safe” social media choices in our current hour. To begin, I work in the Internet space managing teams of developers and have insight into how software is created and deployed. I hope this is a help to someone. I wrote this article quickly because it needed to go out today; so, there are many aspects and points that need further clarification that I simply didn’t have time to cover. Have mercy.

To begin, let’s start with some definitions:

• For a website to run, custom software must be running on a server which is connected to the Internet. Yes, we’re painting with broad strokes. You can run that server in your basement, at your business, etc. If you don’t want to set up your own server and/or deal with it, some companies have set up entire businesses offering virtual servers you can use for your website and they charge you for the access time and bandwidth. I doubt many realize that Amazon has a VERY large offering in this space, it’s called AWS. Google and Microsoft have an offering too. So, you develop your website and deploy it to these offerings. When you’ve done this, it’s said you’ve deployed to the “cloud”. The cloud is an offsite (offsite to your business) server/network offering.
• Most times, a social media offering will also develop a smartphone app that offers their social media particulars in a way that works well for your smartphone. To be clear, you can access all social media offerings on your phone’s web browser but often, that is clunky and is why apps are created. It’s very necessary (you’ll soon see why!) to further clarify types of smartphone apps:
  • Native apps are what you are most familar with. You purchase and download them from the Apple or Google stores.
  • Mobile Web apps are ones that you do NOT download from the Apple or Google stores. They create icons on your phone and in many ways seems just like a “native app”. Where do you get them? A social media site will offer them if they have one.

I’m assuming many, like me, are completely disgusted with Facebook and Twitter and are looking for other options. I’ve never had a Facebook account but have been with Twitter since almost the beginning. Someone recently quipped that they can remember when Twitter was fun. Me too! I remember when it was small and growing. No longer. It’s now a tool for the fascist-left to wield on behalf of the Democrats. I’m tired of waking up every day hearing everyone complain how many followers they have lost and who else has been banned. Folks, we’re not welcome on these platforms any longer. Currently, there is a gigantic exodus happening from Twitter that would make Moses’ tongue wag. I read this morning that Parler now has more users (active?) than Twitter? I don’t know if that’s true.

So, what are the choices I’ve investigated? MeWe, Parler, and Gab are three well known options at the moment.

I’m not going to dig far into WeWe because, for me, it’s got an achilles heel – it’s hard to find people to follow. What do I mean by that? Yes, all the social media sites offer search bars if you know someone’s name or handle. That’s now how I largely find people though. I look at people I know (that have similar views as I do) and look at who they follow and who follows them. I find a lot of people that way. This is very hard to do on MeWe. Unless I misunderstand, the only people I can “investigate” are people I follow. Even “following” on WeMe is locked down – someone has to agree to allow you to follow them – you make a request. So, yes, if my good friend “Jim Lee” lets me follow him on MeWe, I can see who he follows but can’t “investigate” who they follow. This greatly limits finding people on MeWe. Now, for some, how locked down this is is appealing. I may still stay on MeWe, I haven’t decided.

Let’s talk about Parler. They’ve been the anti-Twitter darling for many months; but, they are very vulnerable to leftist Big Tech (as we’re seen this week). I’m on Parler and have been enjoying my stay but Big Tech wielded their nasty claws this week. Parler is very vulnerable for two reasons:

• Their servers are deployed in the AWS cloud. AWS is run by Amazon and Jeff Bezos is the CEO of Amazon. He’s also a big Democrat.
• Their mobile apps are native mobile apps

So, once Big Tech heard President Trump was coming to Parler, that turned into a red alert to attack them. And attack them they did! Apple/Google banned the Parler native app from their stores. Now today, Amazon employees have been pushing Amazon to kick Parler’s servers out of AWS. That decision was made yesterday and Parler is out of AWS as of Sunday night at midnight. Now only was this fascist but rude in that it only gave them a couple days notice. That’s the “caring” left for you.

Lastly, let’s talk about Gab and contrast how they’ve positioned themselves beyond the claws of Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple and Google. Gab doesn’t run their servers in the cloud. They run them at their own business. The “big 5” can’t cut them off. In addition, Gab’s mobile app is not a native app but a web mobile app. In other words, there isn’t anything for Google/Apple to ban in their stores. Gab had great foresight in how they positioned themselves. Personally, I like the Gab site quite a bit. Since Gab doesn’t need the “big 5”, they also don’t have to deal with bowing their knee to them about what “big 5” thinks is a good or bad post.

So, right now, Parler is scrambling to purchase and set up servers at their business. I read their CEO say today they would be a week setting up their equipment and deploying their software. As a further insight into all of this, I know from personal experience that this is very likely going to be much more expensive for Parler going forward. AWS is inexpensive. But, once this is done, the “big 5” can’t shut down their servers. That doesn’t fix the native app problem though. Before we can discuss this further, let’s talk about getting an app from Amazon/Google’s stores. What happens (at a high level)? You purchase the app, it downloads a file to your smartphone and once that file is there, it executes it for you which then starts the installation process. There is a way to install an app without the store and it’s got a funny name, it’s called “sideloading”. In essence, you download the app file to your phone and then kick off the installation process yourself. Parler has already put out instructions on how to sideload the Parler app. So, that somewhat gets around being banned by Google/Apple. Now, some people just won’t be up for that; but then what happens when Parler updates their app? Yep, you’ve got to sideload the new version. Now, Parler could go the Gab route and create a web mobile app but that’s going to be a significant development effort.

All isn’t perfect with Gab’s web mobile app. They did a GREAT job with it but you can’t “share” to it since it’s not a native app. In other words, if I’m viewing a photo in Gallery, I can’t share to the Gab web mobile app. That is a shortcoming of mobile web apps in general and not a shortcoming in what Gab created. In essence, a web mobile app is running within your smartphone’s browser and not the OS directly.

As of right now, MeWe and Gab are slow to respond since millions – literally – are setting up accounts and using the sites. Gab set up 10 servers alone just last night. Fascism is sure good for the competition!

What did the wise Knight say in the Indiana Jones movie? “Choose, but choose wisely!”

If you want to follow me:

• WeMe: PRESUPPANDDOMINION POLEMICS
• Parler: PresuppAndDominionPolemics
• Gab: PresuppAndDominionPolemics