Posted on 01/31/2021 9:57:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The tyrants of Big Tech and the useful idiots in mainstream media have the market cornered on news. They determine which news stories to promote and which ones to suppress. And while there are strong players moving their way up the ranks in social media such as Gab, Parler (assuming they come back), and Clouthub, they just don’t have the user base of Twitter or Facebook that seems necessary in order to get all of the news when it happens.
It’s the second biggest complaint I get from conservatives who refuse to try the burgeoning social media alternatives. The first is reach; they just can’t reach the same number of people on the smaller sites. Twitter and Facebook may be suppressing us, but unless we’re a celebrity we’re not able to get the same type of traction on news that we share on Gab that we do on Big Tech social media sites.
To me, it’s a matter of being on both. I am still active on Twitter while maintaining the same activity level on multiple smaller alternatives. I’ve never really been much of a Facebook guy, but I still occasionally post there as well. If (when) I get kicked off of Twitter and Facebook, I won’t be too mad. It’s bound to happen since I don’t filter my posts. But when it does, I’ll be ready to hit the ground running on the smaller sites.
All of this still comes down to where conservatives can find the news. Many of us have been so reliant on Big Tech that we don’t know where else to look. For NOQ Report, we’ve anticipated the purge for some time and have been weening ourselves off of the Big Tech teat. Yes, Facebook and Twitter still send us a good chunk of traffic, but nowhere near what they’ve sent in the past. Our Twitter account is gone, purged on the same day as President Trump and tens of thousands of other accounts. Our Facebook page has been suppressed for a long time. This time last year, we could get tens if not hundreds of thousands of views on a single Facebook post. Today, we get dozens or hundreds.
The vast majority of our traffic is “direct.” In other words, most of our visitors come to the site on their own, whether they have us bookmarked or if they simply visit regularly. But rising up in the ranks are the various conservative news aggregators visited by conservatives in-the-know. Below is a list of our top ten referrers among these aggregators. We strongly encourage everyone to check them out, bookmark them, and make the ones you like the best the place you visit multiple times per day. Just like Drudge Report used to be, these sites offer conservative perspectives and news vetted by real patriots.
We’ll be updating this list every month. These top news aggregators fill the void left by Drudge Report when he turned to the dark side following the 2016 election. Conservatives need to spread the real news now more than ever.
The best source for conservative news is FR.
Epoch Times.
I found FR is a great news source because people post articles from local sources that are much more reliable than national sources. I also find FReepers are often involved in the story and can provide even more reliable, first-hand, information.
Why isn’t Free Republic on that list? (Even though it would be nice if FR had less lying news articles.)
That’s right.
I have never watched Fox or CNN.
I do not read NY Times or Washington Post except everyone once in a while.
You don’t need to and shouldn’t.
FR has always been a great news aggregator site.
Exactly. I haven’t watched Corporate News in years.
BigTech / MSM avoidance - bump for later.....
God Bless JimRob and all my brothers and sisters here.
Same here. I watch ZERO national news. I don’t even click on national sources anymore. No need. I refused to be lied to.
“The best source for conservative news is FR!”
Amen.
A relative even more conservative than I am, directed me to Foxnews.com for 2/3 times a day for quick viewing.
You have your choice with most news items of reading/scanning it or a short video explaining it.
It is really easy to avoid clicking on some liberal rectum spewing their canned hatred. Many of the older fox conservatives, no longer on Foxnews TB are there.
So I spend a few minutes in the morning, early afternoon and about 5pm. Before going back to freerepublic.com..
Dumped Farcebook, Twitter. And Gargle.
Now on Gab!
Free Republic is the best. I don’t want to just read cherry-picked conservative stories from sites with obvious bias, I want to see it all and FR is one of the few places that has that.
Also, it’s up to the minute breaking and recent news and not stuff from days before warmed over and regurgitated. Conservative sites tend to lack this because they rely too much on commentary, and that takes time to write.
“Same here. I watch ZERO national news. I don’t even click on national sources anymore. No need. I refused to be lied to.”
It is all lies.
Even, say, cooking articles.
There can be exceptions now and then.
“I don’t even click on national sources anymore.”
How about those idiot Freepers who POST and LINKING them to their posts? I NEVER click on fake news MSM sources and dont want to give them click traffic..
Bump for future reference
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Wait until Verizon and the Baby Bells forbid access. That day is coming...
FR has lots of stuff which will be vetted immediately and peer reviewed hundreds of people. We do not have to be bullied by forced scientific theories.
Free Republic and www.rantingly.com Or Noahreport.com are just what I need these days. Focused and useful, even encouraging.
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