Twitter alternative Parler soars as conservatives flock to new social network; Surpasses both Twitter and Reddit to become the top-rated news-related iPhone app

Life Site News ^ | 07/10/2020 | Calvin Freiburger

[right way right]

I signed up.
Doesn’t mean I go there.
Wanted to support competition with Twitter.

[Spktyr]

Set up a bogus Gmail account at Google, get a Google Voice account (both are free), use the free number you got from there and use it to sign up. Only way they get past that is with a search warrant.

The other thing you can do is get a little burner phone, use that number, then toss it. As little as $20-30.

[Dr. Sivana]

Let’s say Apple bans the Parler app.

I read the link included in your post. The reason why iOS has store-based security and MacOS doesn't is because the Mac was around for over 20 years and is used before the phone, and is used different. $99/year is NOTHING for a serious developer.

But if Apple bans the Parler app, then users can just go to the web based site like they do for Free Republic, which doesn't even have an app!

A monopoly on iOS is ridiculous. Android is around, the web is around, heck, Microsoft Surface is still around, I think. Some people LIKE the idea that apps available for the iPhone have a certain minimum standard to achieve (though some apps, like TikTok have even abused those). Early on, Jobs decided that apps were not going to be used for porn. Porn watching folks just have to stream it on a website. I like that I won't run into that garbage in the App Store. For full-fledged flexibility, I have my Windows desktop, where I do real work, though Microsoft is trying to batten that down with their damn Micorosft account and Microsoft store, and vendors pushing subscriptions and cloudware and SaaS over licenses you own on physical media.

[RetiredArmy]

They need an Internet page like facebook. That would really draw in the people who do not go for the smart phones (we don’t) and thus don’t have apps.

[fortheDeclaration]

People just need to get of social media.

[Swordmaker]

Let’s say Apple bans the Parler app. Is it possible to download the app from Parler and install it on your own the way you would in Windows? This article suggests that it’s impossible:

That article is very misleading. The Chinese market developers founded many AppStore’s that used commercial licenses to sideload apps.on iPhones. The iphone users that took advantage of these third party app stores soon found their devices run rampant with malware, viruses and adware and other forms of piracy. They. Invaded legitimate apps, copied data, and spread themselves to legitimate users. Version of the Xcode used to developer these ghost side loaded apps soon were being used by developers to develop and modify real apple apps, poisoning Apple App stope app updates. Apple shut down all side loading gue to the mess and severely limited commercial and corporate app incenses. So this author is lying through his teeth. It is about security of the platform.

[Swordmaker]

Parler now most popular Social Networking on iOS? Perhaps. —PING!

APPLE and Parler PING!

If you want on or off the Apple/Mac/iOS Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Zhang Fei]

[Apple shut down all side loading gue to the mess and severely limited commercial and corporate app incenses.]

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So, contra these other Freepers, it *isn’t* possible to install apps independently of the Apple app store, i.e. they’re mistaking links that take them to the Apple app store for apps installed from outside the app store?

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Jane Long: [If you’re on an iPhone, just go to the main webpage, or the page you sign in on, and click the “share” symbol, at bottom of the screen, then click/choose Add to Homescreen. That makes it it’s own icon/app.]

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Trump Girl Kit Cat: [I have a ton of apps that are not through the App Store on my IPad you just go to the site and bookmark it, the app comes up on a secondary screen, where the search engines are!!]

[doorgunner69]

Sounds like an urban thing...............

[Chgogal]

Bookmark

[doorgunner69]

I do not “do” social networks, and I prefer a computer I can do work on, not a social messaging toy.

[Spktyr]

Works at most chain restaurants now, and out in the country even.

[Shortstop7]

I’ve tried twice to join.... never make it through. They will never make it if they don’t make the sign up more user friendly.

[howlinhound]

I hear the main owner of Parler is a lefty that tolerates other viewpoints. What’s wrong with Gab as an alternate? They at least welcome those on the Right.

[BunnySlippers]

its available as a download on Apple:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/parler/id1402727988

[aquila48]

“I do not “do” smartphones, am I really missing out on anything?”

A desktop computer works fine for me.”

Well... What do you do when you go to the bathroom?

[Secret Agent Man]

Unless they are a dedicated comservative-run platform, its only a matter of time libtards will censor the site and make it unusable for those with non-libtard viewpoints.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Watch Parler get kicked off ITunes and other Apps for “hate speech.” Happened to Alex Jones’s apps, podcasts like Colin Flaherty, etc.

[Truthoverpower]

Takes way too long to load. Freerepublic rules

Thank you Jim !

[Oshkalaboomboom]

I never joined Twitter. I tried to join Parler but they wouldn’t let me sign up without a phone number so I left.