The Rise & Fall of Parler

Some Righties are already abandoning Parler - there are no Lefties with which to argue !!

"Even QAnon Is Abandoning Parler, the Far-Right's Answer to Twitter

For five days at the beginning of November, Parler was the most downloaded app in the U.S. But now, users are over it.

But a month later, the app’s popularity has plummeted as downloads and daily active user numbers have fallen off dramatically — and now even some of the most influential figures in the QAnon community are criticizing it.

Parler’s sudden rise to the top of the download charts coincided with a crackdown on election disinformation on mainstream platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Many high-profile figures in the right-wing, pro-Trump world — people like right-wing commentator

Dan Bongino (who is also an investor in the company), conservative radio host Mark Levin, and Fox News host Sean Hannity — urged their followers to abandon those sites and open an account on Parler. And millions of people followed them.

The company announced on Nov. 12 that its membership had almost doubled since the election a week earlier, from 4.5 million to 8 million.

But once people got there, they found that it wasn’t really much fun.

The platform bills itself as “a non-biased, free speech social media focused on protecting user’s rights,” but in reality, it has become an echo chamber of right-wing ideologies and extremist views. Many conservatives have grown tired of Parler because there’s no one with an opposing point of view to argue with.

And that disillusionment is backed up by hard data.

According to figures from app analytics firm App Annie, Parler plummeted from being the number one app in the U.S. Android app store on Nov. 6, to being number 587 a month later, on Dec. 6"

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx8gj5/even-qanon-is-abandoning-parler-the-far-rights-answer-to-twitter

"Ron Watkins, the administrator of the 8kun website where QAnon’s anonymous leader posts updates, has repeatedly railed against the site’s security and on Wednesday and Thursday posted multiple tweets highlighting these problems."