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by mybestaccount 2010 days ago
Free speech platforms: People have tried to create content platforms where the premise is "we're just like <insert social media site>, but you can say whatever".

e.g. parler, voat, gab, etc...

The problem is that because they are not actually providing any technological innovation over competitors, and are basically just a low-rent clone of twitter, facebook, etc... (except you can say what you want), there is very little incentive for mainstream, sane people to migrate away from the current mainstream platforms. So these new platforms become a cess-pool of people that were too fringe and kicked off twitter, and ultimately the platform becomes unappealing to mainstream users.

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It seems like it starts out unappealing to mainstream users.