The right has this fantasy that they’ll get a social media platform to bombard their user with propaganda unimpeded. Based on my excessive time spent online the demographics don’t work out.
Their largest pool of users would probably be the thoroughly uninformed but these people don’t look for shit on the net. They end up somewhere and then settle there. A long time ago you’d find these people concentrated in Yahoo forums and Q&A or some other place not too many links off from their home page.
Now they end up mostly on Facebook, the comments on youtube, various disqus forums, they might get Q’s over to a chan imageboard but those have the benefit of requiring no registration. None of these people are going to tolerate applying and waiting for approval.
There are some technically sophisticated older GenX and Boomer conservatives. They maybe had a ham radio or a modem back before most people even had a computer but these are the most crotchety stubborn people on the entire internet. They hate social media or anything else “new” and despite being stuck in time they’re still usually repulsed by the sort of people who would hang out on voat. I explored the modern SSH BBS scene a few years back and found maybe the epitome of this in some of the echomail feeds. Conservative Slashdot posters are another good example.
So who is gonna sign up for the Truth network? Well they’re probably already on gab, voat, kiwi farms, daily stormer, and some chan imageboards(1). I’d wager most of these users know Trump is a joke by now but they might still vote for him on account of being the most racist option but they’re not going to migrate to his forum when they already have places where they know the admins and have friends and stuff. They’ll tell useful morons to go vote for him but they don’t actually have anything to discuss with a flat earth anti masker.
(1) Some of these are probably down now but you get the idea.
