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.
“There are none that have a meaningful market share”
When you have people actively sabotaging them by saying they wont use it because they dont have enough people to get a big enough dopomine high from likes and reblogs, then I guess they wont. The big conglamos thank you all the same. If you refuse to beat them, then why not protect them and hope to subsist on their scaps?
“Maybe you think confining conservative thought to a small digital ghetto is a viable alternative”
Maybe you think getting banned, and pushed aside on one of these big sites is a great plan so far with the belief that some one will make up law from the bench to force these places to behave differently?
They care more about us communicating with each other more than these meaningless screaming matches on Facebook that dont accomplishscalps. Stop feeding them, and promote the alternatives, or stop complaining about their dominance.
There is no shortcuts in this, so people on this side need to get used to working to marginalize these companies over the long haul.