We’ve been working with the GETTR team to enable automatic posting for web sites, such as ours.
They have been wonderful and supportive and, as of yesterday, automatic posting is now enabled.
There is no way to know if GETTR will be successful or not, but as the clamor for media and social media censorship continues, they are trying to provide alternatives.
We would appreciate sign ups and follows on this relatively new platform. I wish to extend an open hand to all our detractors to also come over and follow there, so, with luck, the new free speech platforms will not evolve into boring echo chambers.
We are @wattsupwiththat on GETTR, same as Twitter.
https://gettr.com/user/wattsupwiththat
Like and share the posts on the new platform. Since we’ve been limited and shadow banned on Facebook and Twitter for years, it will be interesting to see if we can generate real organic growth.
We’ve also added a share button for GETTR at the bottom of every post. Feel free to use the %@% out of it.
Done! Now on Gettr, weschenbach same as on Twitter, following wattsupwiththat
Thanks for all your work to make this happen, Charles.
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You should flesh out your profile so we know it’s you.
Proud to be one of your first followers!
@Rich Davis
Willis? Rich? Don’t mean to alarm anyone, I think you are being followed. 😉
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I suspect FB and/or TWITTER may not post this. But they should know, it will be shared far and wide.
At the rate FB is going, they won’t know nuttin’ ’bout nobody in the near future. And who will be the first to go when expenses must be cut, the ‘Fact Checkers’ and censors?
“Hey… where’d all our users go?”
Heard a comment…no kids are using FB anymore…I assume TikTok…
The kids thought Farcebook was cool when it first came out but then their parents started using it.
If I’m not mistaken, Facebook required a .edu email account when they started. That’s why the kids liked it.
I think there’s a split. My kids use Snapchat and won’t go near TikTok.
I’m not on Facebook or Twitter in the first place, though I did have FB stock. I sold it when they started censoring people.
This is excellent, it’s how capitalism is supposed to work. If folks aren’t being served properly, someone should come along who will provide what they need.
Of course, I won’t sign up for any social media that requires my authentic identity. I’m surrounded by vindictive social justice warriors so I keep my head down.
This is not likely to end well…
https://gizmodo.com/gettr-reportedly-fired-its-entire-cybersecurity-team-in-1848480655
Mark Zuckerberg lost over $30 billion on paper the other day. Some days are better than others.
And Monday is another day.
I’ve suggested FB will drop 13B next week and thereafter slide down to half the its market cap, assuming that the boss is busy doing everything to stanch the bleeding. The only likely way is to double his users profits – it’s the only advantage he has in the short run before his competitors reach critical mass.
On the craps table that is the Wall Street Casino, FB is about to roll snake eyes.
Update on Monday: FB stock ended the day down another 5+%.
Ah well. Tuesday is another day.
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$200 Billion
From the lead of that linked article, the confession:
” The right-wing Twitter alternative … ”
“Alternative”, the lasts time I searched it in dictionaries, means one of the sides of a binary choice. So, gizmodo identifies Twitter with what? … left-wing!
reportedly, likely, possible, that’s as bad as your average global warming “paper”.
Now that we know Izaak thinks this is a bad idea, I guess we should all join up real quick like.
Think I’ll set up another account, just to jab a finger in his eye!
Feel free to sign up to a online service that has reportedly has nobody looking after cyber-security. After all it is only your personal details that are likely to get stolen and sold to the highest bidder.
OH MY GOD, Izaak! You’re so right. I gave them my burner email address and a screen name. I bet somebody is going to get far with that.
You put your REAL personal details on those platforms?
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I saw that. 2 points :
1 who exactly is doing their cybersecurity – it is always another outfit, never in-house?
2 The GETTR financial link to China anti-Beijing fugitive billionaire Guo Wengui a buddy of Steve Bannon whom Trump tweeted was “dumped like a dog by almost everyone”.
I’ll try posting wonderful Beijing Olympics snapshots….
I have to wonder if this was a Huawei/ZTE domino?
FCC officially opens its $1.9bn purse to reimburse those ripping out and replacing Huawei, ZTE kit
https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/01/fcc_huawei_replace/
They got $5.6 billion in applications – go figure!
Gettr done!
Should median be media?
fixed, thanks.
Charles? Is that your gettr handle after name here?
I have no GETTR handle yet. I’m operating the WUWT one.
Ah, got it.
A lot of this social media stuff is meaningless to me. I don’t get the point. Maybe I should get out more and get all worked up about things.
You probably don’t walk abruptly into the street looking down at your phone wearing your ear buds either.
Apparently, there are 13 women within 10 kms of me that want to have a relationship. I have an issue with my lower back, so I will give it a miss. I could probably try to discuss their opinion on global warming etc. Not sure how that would work out.
Get converts however you can!
What, you want him to take one for the team?
Sacrifices must be made!
That’s an interesting sorting method for finding a partner.
Worth a shot, there are worse ways to sort the wheat from the chafe.
2 f’s
An important criteria for me is if they laugh at my jokes.
That should work for you, Mark. I use your infallible method for self-protection, too: my personality. I suspect some of you other commenters, especially the trolls but also the engineers and science types, are in the same boat.
Way back in the day High Schools held “popularity contests” and whoever won had their photo appear in the year book as “most popular”…childish…social media same…childish media for childish minds.
Part of the infantilization of the general public by the “intellectual elites”.
More selfies required 😀
Gettr is fake free speech, you should be on Gab.
Being on WUWT is good enough for me.
Agree that Gab will be the better choice in the end. It’s been through H*ll and back and hasn’t wavered from free speech principles.
That said, “going Alt-Tech” is not easy so it’s great that a big first step has been made!
I’ve been confused about Gab. It does seem a haven for right-focused anti-semitism, which as a free-speech purist, I do not have a problem. But it makes me less interested in participating.
The free speech community seems to have fractured into two main philosophies.
Gab seems to appeal to number 2.
GETTR ejected some people testing the limits.
I’ve also seen the official Gab twitter account post anti-semitic comments as well. Don’t remember the content. It was only a couple of months ago and definitely raised my eyebrows.
Charles, it seems you are buying the GETTR PR and the rantings of a few troublemakers trying to keep you off GAB. It’s fine if you want to stay on GETTR, but Miller appears to be a snake and GETTR does not seem to be growing much. Sure the free speech on GAB becomes a bit much at times, but most users are NOT trying to cause trouble. The intellectual content is high. You might need to explore a bit more before dismissing it.
I’m keeping my eyes open. As I said. I’ve seen THE OFFICIAL Gab account tweet anti-semitic content. I did a double-take.
I’ve also heard all the negatives about GETTR and am observing to see where things go. I’m not even against testing the limits of a platform, but it is a tedious game.
My main worry is that the self-selection process of alternate platforms leads to echo chambers. This can only be overcome through volume, until enough hate-followers start participating.
GETTR’s volume seems to be getting there.
Check GETTR moneybags billionaire Guo Wengui – expect rabid anti-China rants. He is wanted in Beijing for corruption. Big buddy of Steve Bannon, even more extreme.
As Trump dumped Bannon, I wonder has he checked?
I don’t buy that #2 exists.
The people who post offensive stuff on free speech sites (not only gab but bitchute, brighteon, 4chan etc.) are shills who want to ruin the reputation of free speech sites by giving new visitors to them the false impression that they are full of neo-Nazis. I use Gab on a daily basis and never notice those people, because I have blocked them.
Granted that it’s a little extra effort, for the first few days, to block those accounts. And every month or two I find a few new ones and block them. But it’s worth it not to have to fear being deplatformed because you told the truth about Covid or some other “triggering” subject.
On the plus side, GETTR has banned some of the people you might want to block. Nick Fuentes is one. Pick your own poison.
Fair enough.
Getter done! Thanks for the heads up, Charles.
Finally, I have enough fascist book, their hate of free speech and love of woke cowardly behaviour.
goodbye gas and welcome gettr
The noise level on all alternative fora is overwhelming.
I will continue to read Anthony Watts and Leif Svalgaard here, and discretely ignore the virtue signaling trolls.
As each alternative has arisen I have dutifully registered and read there for a while, only to be disappointed. In about two weeks TMTG TRUTH Social will likely follow.
GETTR was founded by a Trumplican using Chinese funding – the Chinese funder, named Guo, was the guy on whose yacht Bannon was arrested. Guo and his Chinese compatriots tried to improve the GETTR site’s security systems after they were hacked last year, causing the release of personal information of 90 thousand users. But the Trumplicans refused to adopt such security systems and fired the Chinese officers.
Users beware – sign up on GETTR at your own very high risk … and understand that the Trumplicans who run GETTR are lying when they claim to be for “free speech” – all you have to understand is that Trumplicans in charge of the RNC and red state GOP committees are furiously censoring any and all Republicans who dare to criticize their Glorious Supreme Leader Trump. Trump himself is furiously trying to drive out of “his” party any and all who disagree with him.
If you believe GETTR is about “free speech” you are a fool. WUWT is going to lose users, not gain, from this foolish affiliation, and discredit itself with the vast majority of Americans who are not True Believer Trumplicans.
Ideally WUWT would lose at least one user whose name rhymes with insane.
Your hatred of Trump know no bounds.
Ahhh, you got sand in your mangina again. Sux to be you.
TDS is a terrible disease. Here’s hoping you find a cure.
Trump’s favorable ratings are higher than Biden’s, and far higher than Harris’, Pelosi’s or Schumer’s, so he is not opposed by a vast majority.
Of main DC pols, McConnell is most disliked and McCarthy least. The Senate minority leader’s high disapproval is caused by his own party members’ loathing of him.
This is mostly true. I voted for Trump but will probably not join Truth Social because its published rules include a no-disparagement clause. (Besides, naming a media site Truth makes people trust it about as much as Pravda.)
Trump’s efforts to purge RINOs from the party are welcomed by many of us who felt the mistake that ruined him the first time was to trust them.
“Trump’s efforts to purge RINOs from the party are welcomed by many of us”
It’s certainly welcome by me. Trump needs to oust these anti-American Republicans and replace them with America-First Republicans. And Trump is doing a pretty good job of it.
Wow. Whole lotta panties in a twist because you dared to criticize Trump. Many who voted for him, myself included would never in a million years vote for him again. And this attitude that unless you have your lips firmly banrnacled to Trump’s derriere, you are somehow “deranged”, or “must be a liberal”, or whatever, is just retarded.
Unless you agree that Trump is the source of all evil, you have your lips barnacled to Trump’s derriere.
“Many who voted for him, myself included would never in a million years vote for him again.”
How many people are you speaking for, Bruce?
I’ll vote for Trump again, just give me the opportunity.
I doesn’t matter who you voted for in the past, or who you plan on voting for in the future; to judge someone’s creation based on their association with someone you don’t like is indefensible. It’s exactly this type of irrational fear and loathing that is tearing our society apart.
comment from shill
Account created and I’m following WUWT. GETTR may or may not survive, but it’s useful to sign up with some of these services to try and keep one step ahead of the miscreants who might use your name.
Joe Rogan most certainly is not impressed, calling it “fugazy” (fake) and something else (unprintable). Probably a mistake to sign up. He can’t figure out how to get off now.
Why would you post such a bs comment if you’re not a troll?
To delete a GETTR account simply go to the gear icon in the bottom right corner, then tap Settings > My Account > Delete Account
Gawd that’s so hard and obscure! Why don’t they have a button on the home page without a confirmation required? They’re forcing people to stay!
He should try deleting a FB account.
Why would you post such a comment if you’re not an idiot?
The real question is what’s your agenda trying to spread FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) about GETTR being unsafe and difficult to delete? Are you just mindlessly repeating stuff, or malicious?
Really? Joe Rogan, the flipflop queen? That is your standard for gauging, well, anything? Wow.
Bruce,
When you get up close, really up close, can you tell the difference between Trumps ass and Rogans ass?
I strongly echo the comments about GETTR being untrustworthy. It is a new Twitter waiting to degrade, and it is censoring already. At some point you should consider getting on GAB, the only true free speech platform, and the main promoter of the parallel polis. GETTR celebrates the witchy weirdness of NYC and weird composites of Christmas and Hannukah. GAB is unapologetically Christian, but maybe scientists can stomach that in order to truly help inform an audience that is ready to hear more than what the mainstream cucks provide.
“cuck”?
Who needs more evidence that you should be ignored?
live on in your alt-tech dysphoria
What is it with the acolytes of alternative social web sites feeling the need to trash other alternative web sites?
not about trashing — it’s about avoiding a site that censors, shadow-bans, and does a poor job of keeping you truly informed
The best defense against that is to be on many sites and follow many pundits — including several not on your side. Even if you hate them you may benefit from knowing what they’re up to.
I am daily re posting on GETTR your posts. I would on Twitter, but I was de-platformed one month before the 2020 election and will not go back…
Signed up and following! Thanks for the link, and good job!
I signed up for GETTR about a month ago, and I don’t get it. When I start the app, I don’t get a feed of new things, nothing from the few people I’m following, just the GETTR logo and the icons at the bottom. I have to go poking around to find anything.
And then, when I look at posts from people I follow, they’re all comments on other posts, but I can’t see those other posts. All I see are disembodied comments from them with zero context as to what they’re talking about.
I’ll probably be deleting the account, since it seems to be a s***show.
It took me a while to figure out Gettr’s interface. The way to view comments on a post, including your own comments, is to click in the left margin of the post.
Jeff, You might want to give it some time. I honestly felt just what you’ve expressed when I first singed up to GETTR last July; mostly because I’m definately not a “Social Media” fan and I couldn’t figure out what I was supposed to do. Overtime I’ve identified a “good” list of people and organizations to follow (now up to about 80) from which I get a fairly decent feed of news, sports and current events. It’s enough to make scrolling through the latest posts a couple times a day worthwhile. Having cut the cord some years back it’s nice to have a source for what’s happening in the world, but I sure don’t miss the cable news BS.
Very glad to see WUWT on GETTR.
Jeff, Follow “@wattsupwiththat” when you visit gettr click on Profile/Following and click “@wattsupwiththat” You can save a URL of https://gettr.com/user/wattsupwiththat to click directly to wuwt
This is Wonderful news. Soon there will be “Truth Media” which should provide another safe space for non-consensus websites. It looks like Digital World Acquisition Corp is looking to be the Social Media Suite for those who suffer from the Tyrannical Big Tech.
You’re detractors want boring echo chambers, it’s their goal.
Media with only their voices heard
Exactly. And they own the Big 6 media companies, so try to avoid services they control.
Been there for a while, now Following WUWT.
Please consider Parler.com you can monetize and we can filter user replies.
As far as Gab, according to wikipedia there nothing more evil than Gab, been a member since they started, watch idiots post crap and ignore it.
Add the Gettr, Parler, Gab, Rumble, Bitchute and countless other Icons and delete Twitter & Facebook Icons
i was kicked off parler for posting covid and climate science research. kevin’s other recommendations i support.
I have abandoned FB in favour of MeWe and as more platforms move to Rumble I’m slowly divorcing YT as well, the problem being that all my favourite sailing videos are on YT. I have no interest in getting involved in other social media, I have enough problems as it is.
You can download YT videos using few applications on Linux platform. Just a thought.
On Win10 with FF addon download express too…
you guys know that GETTR is a centralized platform just like the other WEB 2.0 sites. The only way is web 3.0 in which one owns one own content. Hive.blog / 3speak.tv are much better!
I think Zion is in the same camp too. You have to “pay to play”, but it is web 3.0
I would follow WUWT on GETTR, but I can find no means of doing so…
Just tap the search magnifying glass at bottom and put in
@
Then without any spaces type
wattsupwiththat
When you see it come up, tap on it
Then tap the Follow button
A few minutes ago I posted that I couldn’t find a means of following WUWT on GETTR. I have now disovered the cause of the problem: the follow button had been eaten by my ad blocker.
Oh well my info might help a noob anyway
the only true free speech platform because they own their own servers is gab.com but gettr.com a vast improvement over legacy social media but they operate on the giant techcos infrastructure.
congrats to wuwt for joining the revolution and consider a relationship with gab.com as well.
video sharing sites rumble, bitchute and odysee to name a few are alternaives to youtube.
get woke, go broke.
Anyone that hosts an APP will be subject to constraint by the app platforms – so Google and Apple can boot you whenever (remember when that happened to Parler?).
A platform that has a web interface is pretty much the only way around that.
I had been debating joining GETTR. This flipped me into the “do it” camp.
Following WUWT and Willis on there.
Just in passing, Gab is ok too. You have to give it a few days to identify the obnoxious people you never want to hear from, block them, then it’s pretty good.
I have signed up with Gettr and followed WUWT.
BTW, I have also started looking at Rumble any time I need video content instead of instinctively going to Youtube. I also exclude Youtube in searches “(-Youtube)”. Obviously they don’t have the same amount of content, but give it time.
This isn’t even a political thing. It’s pro-free-speech and anti-CCP. We have to do our part, no matter how small.
I’m a dinosaur.
I don’t have a cell phone. No Twitter ever. About 5 years ago I did have a Facebook account for about a month.
But a lot of people do both. (I do look at YouTube but not for Climate or Politics. Sports, movie clips, do it yourself type stuff, etc.)
If WUWT gets on other platforms where a search just first returns the website without a “warning” or “Hotdumper” or “TheSmog”, that’s good.
If you’re banned censored on Twitt and Fakebook, why bother keeping their links on your site?
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