Technology Donald Trump Will Return to Social Media with Own Platform

[Husky_Khan]

Jason Miller, a senior advisor for Donald Trump, told Fox News on Sunday in an interview that Donald Trump will be returning to social media in two to three months on his own social media platform and has been at Mar-a-Lago having various meetings with interested parties to work towards that goal.

Trump returning to social media with 'his own platform' in 2-3 months: adviser

Former President Donald Trump will be back on social media in the near future with his own service, according to one of his senior advisers.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Yinko]

"Why don't you conservatives go an make your own Twitter!" - Twitter
"Ok" - Trump

That would probably be about the end of Twitter, an acceleration of the existing trend to the point of total unsustainability. Even if Trump is not successful at re-entering politics, other conservative politicians will have no choice but to join his platform in order to get views from their constituents. Not to mention that a lot of other commentators will join just because it's a viable alternative that is less likely to get shut down or censored (like Parler has apparently been doing).

On the other hand, Trump has a really poor track record with start-ups.

 

[Bear Ribs]

Unless Trump has his own server farm and his own credit card processing system he's likely to see his infrastructure sabotaged the same way most other competitors to big media do.

 

[Yinko]

Unless Trump has his own server farm and his own credit card processing system he's likely to see his infrastructure sabotaged the same way most other competitors to big media do.

True, but those have been known issues for a while. If you even want to think about going against the establishment of social-media at this point those are a given. Server farms are, comparatively, easy. I'm not quite sure what the requirements for credit card processing would be. I know that PayPal was one of the big ones, backer of Patreon, but if that's the case then it would be less a technical issue (PayPal got started around the early 00's) and more one of negotiating agreements with credit card companies. Alternately, they go the crypto route, though I think most people I know have never bought any so that would definitely hinder progress for them.

 

[Bear Ribs]

True, but those have been known issues for a while. If you even want to think about going against the establishment of social-media at this point those are a given. Server farms are, comparatively, easy. I'm not quite sure what the requirements for credit card processing would be. I know that PayPal was one of the big ones, backer of Patreon, but if that's the case then it would be less a technical issue (PayPal got started around the early 00's) and more one of negotiating agreements with credit card companies. Alternately, they go the crypto route, though I think most people I know have never bought any so that would definitely hinder progress for them.

He'll also need to get his own App store going given that we've seen store access used to strangle competitors as well.

 

[BlackDragon98]

Looks like the Trump Organization is going to be diversifying it's holdings . . .

 

[Buba]

I'd love to see alternatives to the PC/SJW platforms arise.

 

[BlackDragon98]

I'd love to see alternatives to the PC/SJW platforms arise.

Honestly, Trump should invest some of his capital into this stuff.
Plenty of people around the world would kill for a non-SJW social media platform.

 

[S'task]

Unless Trump has his own server farm and his own credit card processing system he's likely to see his infrastructure sabotaged the same way most other competitors to big media do.

Server farms are, frankly, the easiest thing in the world to set up, they just mainly require some capital to get started. ISPs cannot refuse to connect to them due to them being ACTUAL Common Carriers, and, I suspect, most ISPs are going to end up being driven more towards the Republicans as time goes on, there's a serious divide between the ISPs (Verizon, Comcast, etc.) and the Content Platforms (Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc.) when it comes to regulation, and the Dems are completely in the pocket of the Content Platforms whereas the Republicans have had policies more favorable to the ISPs in recent memory.

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Unless Trump has his own server farm and his own credit card processing system he's likely to see his infrastructure sabotaged the same way most other competitors to big media do.

My limited understanding is that the real problem is going to be getting banks to accept dealing with his own payment processing system. Wasn't he already locked out of one bank? So he theoretically has assets in it but can't access them? if the other banks band together and say "nope, you can do business with us" then wouldn't that by default pretty much kills his business? Maybe I'm talking out of my ass here.

 

[Bacle]

Trump has enough money and assets he could theoretically put together his own payment processor, if the existing ones try to freeze his platform out.

 

[Sailor.X]

Unless Trump has his own server farm and his own credit card processing system he's likely to see his infrastructure sabotaged the same way most other competitors to big media do.

Payments can now be processed through Cryptocurrency Block Chains. It is happening more and more now.

 

[Bear Ribs]

Server farms are, frankly, the easiest thing in the world to set up, they just mainly require some capital to get started. ISPs cannot refuse to connect to them due to them being ACTUAL Common Carriers, and, I suspect, most ISPs are going to end up being driven more towards the Republicans as time goes on, there's a serious divide between the ISPs (Verizon, Comcast, etc.) and the Content Platforms (Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc.) when it comes to regulation, and the Dems are completely in the pocket of the Content Platforms whereas the Republicans have had policies more favorable to the ISPs in recent memory.

People are likely to be more of a sticking point that just buying actual servers. The silicon valley types he'd need to hire are heavily left leaning, and even the ones who aren't will need to decide if having "Worked for Donald Trump" on their resume might mean they never get a job in California again. Trump unfortunately doesn't have a good track record of hiring and firing, and has a bad reputation with contractors as well.

 

[S'task]

People are likely to be more of a sticking point that just buying actual servers. The silicon valley types he'd need to hire are heavily left leaning, and even the ones who aren't will need to decide if having "Worked for Donald Trump" on their resume might mean they never get a job in California again. Trump unfortunately doesn't have a good track record of hiring and firing, and has a bad reputation with contractors as well.

Silicon Valley has nothing to do with Internet Infrastructure. It's an R&D and Corporate Town, not an Internet Infrastructure town (in fact, it's way down the list as far as internet traffic goes). In fact, California in general is not a location for a lot of server farms, electricity costs are high, you have to much potential for natural disasters, and real estate costs are insane (and all three of those are TERRIBLE for server farms).

As such, server farms tend to actually be located in exburbs of cities in states with low land and power costs in regions with low chances of natural disasters. They also don't require a huge number of people to man.

You actually have a lot of server farms in Texas and across the US South, the Pacific NW hosts quite a few as well, as does the US Mid-Atlantic. Some of those regions are obviously hostile to him but others? Not so much. And since you're locating them in exburbs, the local population of those areas, even in solid blue states, tend to be more conservative. I know of plenty of people in the DC metro area, for instance, that wouldn't even blink twice at working on a "Trump Server Farm" if the pay was competitive... and this is one of the major internet hubs for traffic.

 

[Bear Ribs]

Silicon Valley has nothing to do with Internet Infrastructure. It's an R&D and Corporate Town, not an Internet Infrastructure town (in fact, it's way down the list as far as internet traffic goes). In fact, California in general is not a location for a lot of server farms, electricity costs are high, you have to much potential for natural disasters, and real estate costs are insane (and all three of those are TERRIBLE for server farms).

As such, server farms tend to actually be located in exburbs of cities in states with low land and power costs in regions with low chances of natural disasters. They also don't require a huge number of people to man.

You actually have a lot of server farms in Texas and across the US South, the Pacific NW hosts quite a few as well, as does the US Mid-Atlantic. Some of those regions are obviously hostile to him but others? Not so much. And since you're locating them in exburbs, the local population of those areas, even in solid blue states, tend to be more conservative. I know of plenty of people in the DC metro area, for instance, that wouldn't even blink twice at working on a "Trump Server Farm" if the pay was competitive... and this is one of the major internet hubs for traffic.

I was speaking more of people than the location of the farm itself but your argument is still convincing.

 

[Aaron Fox]

It would probably crash and burn like the other right-wing attempts in some way OR becomes a sort of honeypot for the FBI.

 

[ParadiseLost]

Server farms are, frankly, the easiest thing in the world to set up, they just mainly require some capital to get started. ISPs cannot refuse to connect to them due to them being ACTUAL Common Carriers, and, I suspect, most ISPs are going to end up being driven more towards the Republicans as time goes on, there's a serious divide between the ISPs (Verizon, Comcast, etc.) and the Content Platforms (Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc.) when it comes to regulation, and the Dems are completely in the pocket of the Content Platforms whereas the Republicans have had policies more favorable to the ISPs in recent memory.

Comcast literally banned the discussion or mention of 'fried chicken' by employees because 'its racist.'

 

[Husky_Khan]

Comcast literally banned the discussion or mention of 'fried chicken' by employees because 'its racist.'

Source?

 

[ParadiseLost]

Source?

A friend of mine who's worked at Comcast for over a decade, he's a highly compensated programmer and has become disturbed at how many restrictions Comcast has made about what employees are allowed to say.

Comcast eventually created a list of topics they didn't want employees to talk about because they were "racially insensitive," fried chicken was one of the topics on that list.

 

[Jormungandr]

Payments can now be processed through Cryptocurrency Block Chains. It is happening more and more now.

If he builds his own payment processor based on blockchain technology/infrastructure, something the big companies like Visa are only just starting to develop to evolve their own platforms, it'd actually appeal greatly to pretty much everyone: when the Visa network was first brought online, credit card transactions per minute were absolutely minuscule in amount compared to the behemoths they are now, so times took minutes, not days to process. The underlying infrastructure was improved over the decades, but it's largely remained the same.

Blockchain technology would take the existing behemoth amounts and essentially reduce the time per transaction back to when credit cards were pretty much new-fangled and rare.

A new payment processor like that? It'd severely hurt Visa, Mastercard, and all the other dinosaurs of Big Tech.