is seeing a pretty big spike in new user signups this last week. Anyone know whats going on and what is causing the exodus this time? Is this all because all the social media decided to ban trump maybe? It is the only event of consequence I know of.

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@freemo pretty much every mainstream social platform is in the throes of mass purges right now, many of those purged are ending up here
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@allison Makes sense. I knew they all banned trump, had no idea they were mass purging users as well. I wonder what their criteria for purging them happens to be, most of the people winding up here have been well behaved so far as far as I've seen.

I also wonder how many people who are coming here are people who have been actually banned from other social media vs people who just see the increase in censorship and are bailing ship on the principal of it.

@freemo @allison anyone who looks vaguely republican.
they've been banning anons with barely any posts, they banned one of the babbit's relatives who had only 4 tweets, people with barely any followers..

@icedquinn

Oh wow if that is really the case that is scary and disgusting. I am no fan of republicans or democrats, but I would never ban someone simply for sharing those political ideas.

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@freemo @allison like they literally had zero fucking idea of the landscape they were on. AWS? fucking seriously?

@freemo @icedquinn @allison I'm not being hyperbolic here, there's a lot of information warfare going on right now. You might be sure you have recent backups and prepare for more surges.

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We backup regularly and automatically and keep multiple instances of our backups in different geographic locations and with different providers.

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