Two More Alternatives To Twitter and Facebook For Conservatives

Back in April we wrote about an alternative to Twitter and Facebook for people who value free speech and don't want to worry about getting banned for their political beliefs. In that article we named Gab.com as that alternative.

Well, having spent some time there over the last month or so, we realized two things about Gab:

1. It is legit full of racists. I'm talking real racists too, not the bullcrap label that Democrats put on all conservatives in general. I'm talking the real deal here.
2. The community there is very small, so those racists stand out quite a bit more than they would otherwise.

Needless to say, it wasn't the alternative we were looking for really.

Since then we discovered two more alternatives. One of them seems really promising!

Telegram

The first one is called Telegram. 

From their page:

I heard about them from the folks over at Infowars after they got completely de-platformed by Instagram and Facebook. If you didn't hear about that, our political site Mainwashed did a video about it below:



Paul Joseph Watson, a regular on Infowars, claimed he received 3000 followers overnight on Telegram.

Wow! Almost 3,000 followers on Telegram overnight. When a Russian-owned platform is more pro-free speech than an American one, should we be concerned? https://t.co/izDBeazMah

— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) May 7, 2019

Other than the guys at Infowars, I really haven't heard much more about it though. If you've used it, please let us know what you think in the comments!

Parler

The other alternative to Facebook and Twitter for conservatives we heard about is called Parler! The CEO of Parler was recently featured on the Laura Ingraham show:



In fact, The Hill also reported about it saying that President Trump's campaign team was checking it out as a viable alternative to Twitter.

From the piece:

President Trump's 2020 campaign manager is reportedly scouting a social media site aimed at a conservative audience for a potential new platform for the Trump campaign. 

Politico reported Tuesday that Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is considering creating an account for Trump on the social media platform Parler, which has attracted right-wing activists banned from other social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

The very next day after these two reports we noticed a mass exodus from Twitter to Parler. A huge group of people we follow with our Mainwashed account have made the move to Parler.

We did setup an account over there for Mainwashed, and even became verified! In fact, after our first day we had over 1,000 followers!

It looks like you can gain lots of followers the old fashioned way (that you used to be able to do on Twitter) by mass following like-minded users, and having them follow you back. So far there doesn't appear to be a limit to that. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing, I'll leave that up to you to judge.

Never the less, the community at Parler is booming and vibrant. It is very active and to us it looks very promising!

I even put out a poll on my person Twitter account seeing which one of these Twitter and Facebook alternatives was the best one:

Best Twitter alternative for conservatives?

— Burn It Down 🔥 (@Burn1tD0wn) May 30, 2019

As you can see, after over 1300 votes, Parler was the clear winner at 71%!

What do you think about these platforms? Have you tried any of them? Let us know what you think in the comments!