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I have a SIL who is a programmer. A good one who makes huge money. He’s never been out of work, lives in a fancy house in a fancy neighborhood, drives nice cars..

Back a few years ago he was telling me about a cloud storage system he was developing...like googles photo cloud.

He asked me what I thought of it. I told him that as a consumer, I wouldn’t want it or use it. That I preferred my data to remain in my possession. I doubted the security as it would be more exposed and whomever owns the cloud owns your data too. And if that cloud company goes out of business or is otherwise shut down, what happens to your stuff?

Computers are glitchy whether its mine, yours or someone elses. Im just as capable of backups as anyone else.

Well, that’s not the answer he wanted to hear and it turns out we were both right. Other consumers liked it and indeed, the cloud owner owns the stuff and can shut you out from your stuff at it’s will.

It’s very easy to build a racecar computer, and more affordable if you have to buy the parts a piece at a time. You can stack as many hard disks as your hearts desire and have all the space you will ever need. Just begin with a case that can accept a boatload of hardrives as you might want..even 7 or 10. And make each newly added drive the biggest you can get. Put one OS on it and dedicate the rest as storage space.
My laptop holds 2 hard drives. Even that has a ton of space and then I can add external harddrives also. Lotsa ways to skin a cat.

Parler can do the same. Get their own OS and then all they need is an internet provider with a fast connection.

I think that’s sort of ehat JR does.

Instead of being at the mercy of several, you’re at the mercy of one.

Software can be written to work with either computers or mobile phones. My phone is a phablet so I can tell my browser which version I want.