[HN Gopher] Parler owner laid off 75% of staff and has only 20 e...
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Parler owner laid off 75% of staff and has only 20 employees left
Author : mfiguiere
Score : 40 points
Date : 2023-01-11 20:32 UTC (2 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
| ElfinTrousers wrote:
| All else aside, when your contingency plan is to get Kanye to
| take a mess off of your hands, you may be in too deep already.
| [deleted]
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| _whiteCaps_ wrote:
| My understanding is that Parler is a Mastodon instance... I know
| that every time headlines are posted about the number of
| employees at X company, people ask why there are so many people
| working there. But in this case I think it's justified. They're
| just running a Mastodon instance, why so many people?
| ubermonkey wrote:
| My cynical answer is that most such things on the American
| right are, at some level, a grift.
| isthisthingon99 wrote:
| Not just https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-lives-
| matter-activ...
| _whiteCaps_ wrote:
| Ah good point. I also hadn't considered they're probably
| putting a lot of effort into DDOS mitigation.
| efsavage wrote:
| > They're just running a Mastodon instance, why so many people?
|
| My first reaction was surprise that there were 20 people at
| Parler to begin with!
|
| From what I've heard of people running Mastodon servers, they
| are not exactly lightweight, and a large one might actually
| require a lot of housekeeping. So maybe 20 is not too
| unreasonable...
| vaidhy wrote:
| They had 80 people to begin with. After 75% layoff, they have
| 20 people left.
| vkou wrote:
| > They're just running a Mastodon instance, why so many people?
|
| Marketing, promotion, moderation, fundraising, interfacing with
| your political allies, figuring out a way to make money with
| whatever they are doing, grift.
| ender341341 wrote:
| > They're just running a Mastodon instance, why so many people?
|
| I assume (with no other info) that they probably had a bunch of
| marketing/pr/sales folks.
| tablespoon wrote:
| > My understanding is that Parler is a Mastodon instance... I
| know that every time headlines are posted about the number of
| employees at X company, people ask why there are so many people
| working there. But in this case I think it's justified. They're
| just running a Mastodon instance, why so many people?
|
| IIRC, when they were first in the news, I believe they were
| running some insane thing built on top of WordPress (or some
| other blogging platform like that). At least that was according
| to someone who had claimed to hack them and scraped all their
| user data. I think the site was a rush job meant to capitalize
| on particular dissatisfactions with Twitter.
|
| I believe gab (not so much MAGA as explicit neonazis) is a
| Mastodon instance, and that's caused trouble for Mastodon
| clients on various app stores (i.e. if you can use the generic
| client to connect to gab, the app could fail the app store's
| content policies and not get approved).
| realAzazello wrote:
| Already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34343187
| tomohawk wrote:
| [flagged]
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