“There are not effective alternatives.”
There are none that you want to use or gives you the same opportunity to get into flame wars with libs, and you just dont care to take the time to build those alternatives up.
“Effective” is a meaningless weasel word.
There are none that have a meaningful market share. Maybe you think confining conservative thought to a small digital ghetto is a viable alternative. I don’t think that’s a remotely realistic alternative.
and yes, gab and vimeo and the like are tiny. They’re like gnats compared to giants like Twitter and Youtube. No, they would not suddenly experience some kind of explosive growth. They cannot effectively compete in their segments with the giants who got their first and entrenched themselves.
I am not the only one working on trying to build effective alternatives.
Problem is implementation, acceptance and use.
There must be measures in place to stop, effectively, the people who wish to break state and federal laws, but otherwise, there should be little to no restrictions.