I have closed my Twitter account, I'll be closing my FB accounts later this afternoon so my followers will see my note about it and start using my new social media. I don't want to be a part of their platforms anymore. I'm now using Gab.
Gab is the only alternative I've seen that doesn't require you to sign up just to look around a little, although there are others I haven't seen yet. They are Christian based.
They wrote their own platform, own their own servers, have their own app, and no censorship. Due to overwhelming number of folks signing on with them the past few days, their servers are sometimes overwhelmed during the highest traffic times or during their slowest traffic times when most of their users are sleeping, and they may shut a server or two down to make updates.
They are purchasing more servers as needed and have been working day and night to do the updates and install more servers. I expect they'll be really good when they have adequate servers to catch up with all of the sudden new, overwhelming amount of bandwidth they are facing.
They have features similar to both FB and Twitter with video channels available. I like them a lot.
See the video here if you want more info.
https://tv.gab.com/channel/a/view/keep-the-faith-get-on-gabcom-5ff907c24468dbdab3e4bf16
I still monitor Twitter, I just can't and don't want to post there anymore. You're spot on about Parler, it has never been a very secure platform, dependent on DS servers.
Gab is a totally private enterprise, no dependence on DS whatsoever. They will have temporary issues if the whole internet is blacked out which is bound to happen temporarily at some point in time. Other than that they are solid.
FB is good for ghost research basically.
Besides, it looks like FB and Twitter and Google are approaching the point soon when they will be busted up or dissolved. I really like what I've seen of and can see from Gab.