[hagbarth]

People will leave pretty quickly if there is no moderation. People don't want to be in such places. Just check the missing popularity of Parler.

[amadeuspagel]

Network effects are a perfectly sufficient explanation for why people don't use parler. Can you name one example where people switched from a bigger to a smaller network, because the bigger one allowed too much freedom of speech?

[lupire]

Why don't "free speech" networks ever grow to be the bigger one in the first place?

[amadeuspagel]

Twitter and facebook did grow big when they were free speech networks.