>I am pointing at Gab as an example of definite success
As far as I can tell, Gab is still losing money and not gaining users (100,000 estimated active as of now, despite 6 years of existence), so it's hard to call it a success. It, like previous alt-right responses to mainstream platforms such as Parler, will likely die the same death for the same reasons: not enough money or users to be sustainable.
>I absolutely loved your hate speech.
It's the opinion shared by a significant part of the population, and the content is crap. I tried each of the "alternative" platforms, and on each one am bombarded by the stupidest scams, "buy gold" idiots, and such ignorance and stupidity I dropped each one.
The userbase trends far-right so most people will never join unless the userbase is more central, which will not happen. The CEO has engaged in the most nonsensical anti-semitic screeds on Twitter and elsewhere, having to repeatedly delete his own content. It's no wonder people don't like the platform or it's content.
Researchers, analyzing random samples of millions of posts on the site, find many multiples of hate speech more than other platforms, find the majority of posts are political (and right leaning), that people moving to this site after being banned elsewhere increase in toxicity because Gab lets them (as long as they have the "right" viewpoint), and on and on. The academic literature on the platform content and behaviors is spot on in my opinion. These are empirical reasons that most people will not join. Want some good reading on what the site actually has? Look no further than Google Scholar [1]
If most people did not share the opinion that the content is bad, more people would use those platforms.
As far as I can tell, Gab is still losing money and not gaining users (100,000 estimated active as of now, despite 6 years of existence), so it's hard to call it a success. It, like previous alt-right responses to mainstream platforms such as Parler, will likely die the same death for the same reasons: not enough money or users to be sustainable.
>I absolutely loved your hate speech.
It's the opinion shared by a significant part of the population, and the content is crap. I tried each of the "alternative" platforms, and on each one am bombarded by the stupidest scams, "buy gold" idiots, and such ignorance and stupidity I dropped each one.
The userbase trends far-right so most people will never join unless the userbase is more central, which will not happen. The CEO has engaged in the most nonsensical anti-semitic screeds on Twitter and elsewhere, having to repeatedly delete his own content. It's no wonder people don't like the platform or it's content.
Researchers, analyzing random samples of millions of posts on the site, find many multiples of hate speech more than other platforms, find the majority of posts are political (and right leaning), that people moving to this site after being banned elsewhere increase in toxicity because Gab lets them (as long as they have the "right" viewpoint), and on and on. The academic literature on the platform content and behaviors is spot on in my opinion. These are empirical reasons that most people will not join. Want some good reading on what the site actually has? Look no further than Google Scholar [1]
If most people did not share the opinion that the content is bad, more people would use those platforms.
[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C15&q=gab...