So it seems like everyone with a brain realizes now that Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Reddit and left-wing media like BBC is completely hostile to anyone on the right. Plenty of alternatives already exist, some with sizable userbases, from Gab to out very own Poal. Why don't these senile fucking boomer politicians just delete their twitter account and move to something like gab instead? Why are they whining about how the most far left website is censoring them when a much better one is a few clicks away?
I can understand the apolitical fence-sitters who feel like they have to go to Twitter and Facebook because they have to be reached by the absolute maximum of eyeballs. And it's true that these platforms are still the largest. But big tech hasn't been a true monopoly in ages. There are plenty of alternative platforms now. And it's not like years ago when they had no users. These days the majority of conservatives (not just "far right" but even moderate republicans) in America have heard of at least Gab. You'd already be coming into a huge userbase. And if a major politician started using them, it would easily rally the rest of the right as well.
This was the worst failure of Trump in my opinion: He didn't delete his Twitter account and start using something else like Gab, he didn't use a tiny chunk of his immense personal fortune to build an alternative and he didn't set up a government operated platform (which would have been public and hence not subject to the bullshit "it's a private company they can do what they like" argument). Well Trump is gone now but why won't his would-be successors learn from his mistakes?
This is precisely why I don't bother with dropping truth bombs on (((social media))). I go for word of mouth in real life - you can't get banned there. And in regards to the leftist horde attempting to cancel you - you have a mentality of "Don't care what you're screeching, I'm not going to stop saying what I'm saying".
But big tech hasn't been a true monopoly in ages. There are plenty of alternative platforms now. And it's not like years ago when they had no users.
look at the financial backing, when you have access to the printing press it doesnt matter how profitable you are. then look at bitcoin vs fiat currency, bitcoin is complex fiat most people have used their entire lives. the amount of effort to understand cryptocurrency is way less then just doing what you used to do, doesnt matter if you lose 6% value per year even if you arent in debt.
when you have access to the printing press it doesnt matter how profitable you are
This would be true if I was talking about trying to make Twitter go out of business, but I'm not. We're not in the situation of just one printing press we have to defeat. There are actually many printing presses out there, some large, some small, and anyone can choose whichever one they like. The handful of really big printing presses are blatantly abusive, so why keep going to them and then complain about the abuse, instead of just going to the far less abusive competitors?
his was the worst failure of Trump in my opinion: He didn't delete his Twitter account and start using something else like Gab, he didn't use a tiny chunk of his immense personal fortune to build an alternative and he didn't set up a government operated platform (which would have been public and hence not subject to the bullshit "it's a private company they can do what they like" argument). Well Trump is gone now but why won't his would-be successors learn from his mistakes?
Not the 'worst', but yes, a huge mistake.
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