Bad news for Parler: They've gotten ditched by Apple, Google, Amazon, text message services and email providers. Other bad news: Their lawyers left, too https://deadline.com/2021/01/parler-ceo-says-service-dropped-by-every-vendor-and-could-end-the-company-1234670607/

Some of the free speech we'll be deprived of while Parler is down

Sad day for @DevinNunes, who switched practically everything over to Parler in November. He's been doing a dramatic countdown of their final hours: "Dark Winter will set in shortly" https://parler.com/profile/Devinnunes/posts

Here's what Parler is / was, in case you're curious https://wapo.st/3lYUgFo 

Researchers saved 99.9% of Parler's posts before it collapsed. Because the site doesn't scrub metadata, like Big Tech rivals, many images / videos include people's GPS coordinates. Parler constantly self-celebrated its privacy measures, so: Not great! https://gizmodo.com/every-deleted-parler-post-many-with-users-location-dat-1846032466

This was Parler's internal moderation tool, @donk_enby says. The site relied on user reports and a volunteer "jury" to remove content; no automated detection for sexual-abuse images, violence, threats, etc. Extremely barebones; "defamation" is misspelled https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1346536580295626754