Revelations

Now that twitter's monopoly is in free fall due to their banning conservatives left right and center, a new player has come to take its place - Parler.

What's interesting about this from a group dynamics perspective, is that it looks like you're starting to see the critical mass for new narratives and new adaptive (viritual) groups developing.  Twitter had this potential, but node disruptions and throttling never gave it the sense that it was sustainable and people could be themselves on the conservative side (for better or worse).

For example, I doubt you'd see this on twitter

And while you'd probably see this "hot take", it would probably be limited to reactionary network clusters

Once these things get approved by a majority of people on a platform, the dynamics change. Twitter, facebook and others were rightly worried about that. It's the "silence is violence" trope that is as true as the Overton window. Gab got sucked into that and I doubt will ever get out of 4-chan hell.

But, the most important point is that 1st ammenders are organizing. And while most every social institution and governing caste is against them, I suspect when the conservative ramp-up comes, it will have a quality clearly different from current agitations.

That's why I worry so much about Nov election. A "stolen" election, and the placement of leadership who hates their very identity will energize some very pronounced movements of this congealing group agent.