Parler basically folded like a wet noodle.
"The Pirate Bay" is still around, but they can't figure out how to keep Parler up? I certainly ain't falling for that shit. By now, everyone should know that the internet is like a high school popularity contest. Getting picked on comes with the territory, and if you aren't prepared for that, you lack something.
I like some of the alternative social networks. However, I can tell that none of them are bringing anything different. They might talk a better game and use the right buzz words, but they are just as hollow as Zuckerberg, or Dorsey, or whoever the fuck is in charge of Google and Apple today.
Don't get me wrong; I think that most people mean well. When I said hollow, I mean powerless or lacking the will to follow through on what needs to be done. Look, I'm sorry, but you have to force people to grow up at some point. Because not doing so is the greater disservice. We make the hard decisions now, so we don't have to deal with the eventual clusterfuck of what is inevitably our own creations.