So, does this mean that one of the problems is that before voicing an opinion, a typical user is forced to directly confront the veracity of a particular statement, and whether or not an offhand remark about someone’s ancestry or hygienic practices deserves to be burdened by a label as momentous as “truth”? What an intriguing notion.
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And you still can’t access their “network” on the web. That’s what is really pathetic.
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I think it is also just misunderstanding what their fans want and are trying to make a conventional media network in the guise of a social network. They are looking at Fox news, OANN, and whatever drek and assuming that because their target audience will sit and watch TV and have Tucker Carlson vomit diarrhea at them, they want an online social media platform where they can get the same.
But that isn’t how people use social media. Facebook and Twitter didn’t get to be cesspools of white supremacy because Mark Zucerberg is constantly posting KKK memes and everyone else just likes and shares them. They just created algorithms that promotes “the thing we can measure that we call engagement” above anything else. It turns out that with no controls and no oversight this is a pretty good breeding ground for online extremism whether it is ISIS, Russian trollies, or American fascists. But I don’t think that a centrally planned, ideologically pure platform specifically pushing the agenda of a small group of insiders is ever going to succeed as a social network.
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Trump’s…a dud
FTFY.
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There are also vastly fewer of them than they think there are. The Right always fancies itself as the “silent majority”, but that wasn’t true when Nixon made up the term and it isn’t true now. Social media networks need critical mass, and there simply aren’t enough ignorant racist misogynist conspiracy theorists out there to do it. Those people punch above their weight in politics because of corruption and broken electoral systems, but that’s it.
All one has to do is look at the community response to every one of their “protests” (Jan 6, Moron Convoys, Charlottesville, etc). Everyone who lives in the places they go for those “protests” is angry at them and pushes back hard. Nobody in Ottawa wanted those truckers there, any more than anyone wanted Rittenhouse in Kenosha. The small band of chuckleheads that they manage to round up from across the country to go to one spot is… basically everyone that shares their reprehensible beliefs.
Compare to responses to protests Iike BLM, which are nationwide, spontaneous, and well supported by the majority of cities hosting them.
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