New TrumpWorld social media site Gettr is hacked, mocked and trolled with hedgehog porn

[laylalex 7,284]

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Former Trump spokesperson Jason Miller launched a new social media platform called Gettr late last week, only to see it quickly mocked online, particularly for its uninspired name. Gettr was presented to the public as a way to solve conservatives' problems on social media, but, the launch encountered with a series of challenges, from hackers scraping troves of users' private data to leftists trolling the platform with NSFW Sonic the Hedgehog content. 

Last Thursday, Politico was the first to report on Gettr's plans to go live. A team of former Trump campaign associates helped to kickstart the new right-wing app, which announced itself as aimed at "fighting cancel culture, promoting common sense, defending free speech, challenging social media monopolies, and creating a true marketplace of ideas."

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Soon thereafter, The Daily Beast uncovered that Miller's entire venture was being funded by fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, aka Miles Kwok, who is friendly with various TrumpWorld figures, most notably Steve Bannon. But before the dust even got a chance to settle, Gettr became the target of hackers who saw the site security as laughable. 

 

https://www.salon.com/2021/07/08/new-trumpworld-social-media-site-gettr-is-hacked-mocked-and-trolled-with-hedgehog-porn/

 

Hackable? ✔️

Claims to be against censorship but removes posts? ✔️

Funded by Chinese billionaire? ✔️

Sonic the Hedgehog porn? ✔️

 

Sounds cool!  

[moxy 1,051]

These ideology projects, particularly extreme right ideology projects, have some pretty big problems:

 

- Social media websites cost a LOT of money to implement. But these projects tend to be cash poor

- Social media websites are very labor intensive. Limited budgets constrain this

- Social media websites are resource (compute, network, infrastructure) intensive. Limited budgets cripple these requirements

- Good developers often have their pick of projects, and these ideology projects don't typically appeal to them

- Good developers are expensive. Ideology projects are either unwilling or unable to pay top dollar

- This leaves mid- to lower-tier developers who are often inexperienced and willing to take lower pay

- Less experienced and less-capable developers are more prone to coding exploitable bugs

- Project leaders often know more about their particular ideological niche than they do project management

 

So it's really no wonder that every time one of these sites is launched, they fail miserably, usually within hours. I think a lot of people just decide that their vanity project is going to be the next big thing without really understanding the realities of big software development projects.

[Nitas_man 3,100]

Helps if the customer has a decades old pattern of stiffing anyone who does business with him 😂