[thoughtomator]

The thing is, we DID build our own platforms. These Communists built nothing on their own - they took over the institutions we built.

The people who built our tech infrastructure were overwhelmingly libertarian. The Left had no interest in any of it until it became successful.

[ConservativeMind]

This author doesn’t fully get it.

The platform is not important. It’s the texts that are.

Massive texting ability, rather than networking or seeing others’ texts on a single site, are most important.

[Pollard]

gab.ai - closed system - can’t see anything unless you register/login

mewe.com - closed system - can’t see anything unless you register/login

parler - closed system - can’t see anything unless you register/login

https://www.ts.today (Jordan Peterson’s ThinkSpot)- closed system - subscription based

Basically conservatives are locking themselves in a room while proclaiming Free Speech.

[OldNewYork]

Should there be a conservative phone company, a conservative internet service provider, a conservative letter and package delivery service, a conservative bank card and payment company too?

[Bob434]

I just thought off something- do ya remember when dear leader said “You didn’t build that”?

Well, if that’s the case, facebook and twitter belong to everyone, and WE set the rules! So let’s start firing everyone- and hiring new help to run those sites!

[I want the USA back]

The bastards would hound the ISP that hosts the site and claim racism, homophobia, hate speech, etc. So the site must be hosted by normal humans, not wimpy faced social justice warriers.

[Two Kids' Dad]

Instead of a Twitter alternative for conservatives, there needs to be a Twitter alternative run by conservatives for everyone. Make sure the algorithms stay clean and fair, according to rules/guidelines that are clear and available to everyone who uses or views the site.

It ain't rocket science. And it can't be set up as an echo chamber exclusively for like-thinking people. It needs to reach out to everyone and allow misguided people to have the opportunity to receive a conservative or libertarian perspective.

[DeplorablePaul]

The only reason I was on twitter is that I liked to mock and insult celebrities.

Liberals got me twitter banned for life twice

Nazis got me banned from Gab. I don’t react well to bullying.

[z3n]

If you think any site has to stay on the top of the heap just because it’s currently the king of the hill, I have two words for you;

myspace -> facebook

Here, let’s try two more;

yahoo -> google

How about something more recent and still occurring;

skype -> discord

All you really have to do is be better, easier, more fun, or sometimes you just have to catch a little bit of good luck in how you end up catching the attention of popular internet culture.... usually a combination of all of the above.

There is absolutely NOTHING that says Twitter wont get surpassed. No facebook.

[aquila48]

What the author doesn’t get is that you can do both. You can continue fighting them in their arena while also having your own sanctuary to take comfort and strength from.

When you’re in a war it’s good to have your own safe zone.

[adorno]

Before FOX and before Limbaugh and before AON and O’Reily and Hannity...... nobody thought of the need for conservative TV and conservative radio and conservative voices all over the airwaves and over the internet.

So, what happened? FOX was built, and THEY CAME. It became the most successful of all the cable news networks around. Some would way that is was/is more successful than the over-the-air TV network news (ABC/CBS/NBC).

So, why not follow the same path towards building the conservative internet (not just competitors for Twitter and Google and Facebook and Instagram, etc). If FOX was able to do it, I’m pretty sure that the conservative internet can also overtake (in due time) the liberal internet. After all, most people are NOT LIBERAL and there are more conservatives and libertarians around than democrats. It’s just a matter of having the courage and the means to get it done.

BTW, CWitter is a no-no for a name.

[Fhios]

I disagree that a Ctwitter or Cyoutube or CFacebook would fail. I think it would be a “King has no clothes moment” where it will all of a sudden become apparent that all the boycott threats are merely bluster from the Gay Cabell or whatever name you give it and that they just do a lot of raving and ranting, along with their pet CEOs, teachers and politicians.

Noboody likes to think they are being cheated out of their just due, and that’s what will happen when the people who give second thought to the “agenda” would convert like a stampede to a new platform. Perhaps not facebook, it’s entrenched and very many users have to much vested in it while caring nothing about who advertises on it. It will certainly pull all the ‘demonetized’ users over who in turn will help fund the platforms with from the fees they earn.

But this is all pipe dreaming until IP, copyright and trademarks are revoked because they refuse to service everybody equally and thus disenfranchising them.

After all that the question remains. What do the Cplatforms do about real Nazi advocates and real troublesome race baiters?

[Sam Gamgee]

If you do that it will only attract conservatives. The idea is to get relatives and friends to move to a better platform, so it needs to simply be a censorship free platform that lets all views exist.