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GETTR?

Warp12 said:
I just checked and there is a paid ad at top, and plenty of related articles. Also, the link to the homepage is there.

I can't see this going very far, outside of the fan base...which I believe to be greatly overestimated.
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Put in 'gettr.com' and it comes right up on google.
 
Looks to me like the big problem for GETTR - other than feeble numbers - is that they only have one subject to talk about: Trump.

Very little action there. Some of Mike Pompeo's posts have been shared hundreds of times!

I didn't know how much of a christian zealot he was. Wow, he's got it bad.
 
The Atheist said:
Looks to me like the big problem for GETTR - other than feeble numbers - is that they only have one subject to talk about: Trump.

Very little action there. Some of Mike Pompeo's posts have been shared hundreds of times!

I didn't know how much of a christian zealot he was. Wow, he's got it bad.
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For a political culture that's very much about "owning the libs", having their own public clubhouse where nobody else is around isn't much fun. If they can't mingle in the general public, there's not much point. Deplatforming works in this regard.
 
Marjorie Greene was hacked.
 

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Oh … her being hacked might explain her bizarre behavior. I don’t mean a certain account of hers, I mean her actual self. Can they do that?
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
For a political culture that's very much about "owning the libs", having their own public clubhouse where nobody else is around isn't much fun.
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It is when they fantasise about owning the libs further. It's become like any CT: they have conversations about how things are going to turn out, isolated from any real-world consideration. That way they can imagine how triggered the libs are going to be without ever having to test it in meatspace.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
For a political culture that's very much about "owning the libs", having their own public clubhouse where nobody else is around isn't much fun.
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They seem to enjoy it though - there's a beautiful prototype at SC where a dozen or so far-right guys gather and use each other as an echo-chamber for:

Biden's communism
The evil Libbruls wanting to bring in military rule and take all their guns
Climate change being a hoax
Covid being a left-wing plot...

Not quite at QAnon level, and I bet if you met any of them irl they'd be impossible to pick - they're not MAGA-hat wering rednecks in a pickup. They need reinforcement, and what better way to get that in a room full of like minds?
 
The Atheist said:
They seem to enjoy it though - there's a beautiful prototype at SC where a dozen or so far-right guys gather and use each other as an echo-chamber for:

Biden's communism
The evil Libbruls wanting to bring in military rule and take all their guns
Climate change being a hoax
Covid being a left-wing plot...

Not quite at QAnon level, and I bet if you met any of them irl they'd be impossible to pick - they're not MAGA-hat wering rednecks in a pickup. They need reinforcement, and what better way to get that in a room full of like minds?
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Sure, but it seems like none of these twitter or facebook alternatives every have much longevity. Gab is a basically a passion project of their fascist founder. Others have gone tits up for lack of use and money.

I doubt this current generation of alternative social media for CHUDs is long for this world.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
For a political culture that's very much about "owning the libs", having their own public clubhouse where nobody else is around isn't much fun. If they can't mingle in the general public, there's not much point. Deplatforming works in this regard.
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For this reason and others, all these alternative platforms are doomed to failure from the get-go. Some of these things are natural monopolies: you don't want to use the 2nd best mapping app, or a social network that has half the friends available that facebook has and what is the point of having a twitter for only conservatives without liberals to trigger?
 
60,000 of those were just bots from China. Half of the remaining were just fundraising
 
Donal said:
60,000 of those were just bots from China. Half of the remaining were just fundraising
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Nah China doesn't care unless there is some valuable technology or intellectual property to steal. Russia on the other hand...
 
Jihadists flood GETTR with propaganda

Just weeks after its launch, the pro-Trump social network GETTR is inundated with terrorist propaganda spread by supporters of Islamic State, according to a POLITICO review of online activity on the fledgling platform.

The social network — started a month ago by members of former President Donald Trump’s inner circle — features reams of jihadi-related material, including graphic videos of beheadings, viral memes that promote violence against the West and even memes of a militant executing Trump in an orange jumpsuit similar to those used in Guantanamo Bay.
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Islamic State “has been very quick to exploit GETTR,” said Moustafa Ayad, executive director for Africa, the Middle East and Asia at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a think tank that tracks online extremism, who first discovered the jihadi accounts and shared his findings with POLITICO.

“On Facebook, there was on one of these accounts that I follow that is known to be Islamic State, which said ‘Oh, Trump announced his new platform. Inshallah, all the mujahideen will exploit that platform,’” he added. “The next day, there were at least 15 accounts on GETTR that were Islamic State.”

While GETTR does not provide access to its data to track the spread, or virality, of such extremist material on its platform, POLITICO found at least 250 accounts that had posted regularly on the platform since early July. Many followed each other, and used hashtags to promote the jihadi material to this burgeoning online community.
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