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Parler’s parent company has laid off a majority of its staff by Makena Kelly (The Verge)
Parlement Technologies, the parent company of “censorship-free” social media platform Parler, has laid off a majority of its staff and most of its chief executives over the last few weeks. The sudden purge of staff has thrown the future of Parler, one of the first conservative alternatives to mainstream platforms, into question.
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I get that Aira is expensive to run. However, I would like to point out that I can get an actual honest to God dedicated server from Hurricane frickin Electric for less than that mid-range price, and on top of my concerns about what they're using all the data they're snarfing for and their complete lack of transparency about any of this I will continue not subscribing and insisting others not use Aira in my presence.

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Why Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with [@SignalApp] president Meredith Whittaker by alecm (alecmuffett.com)
There are a lot of people out there who equate writing good, secure, privacy-enhancing software, with promotion of “self-evidently problematic” anti-statist libertarian agendas which they rail against — presumably because they’re worried that society (i.e. they) will lose something from re...