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It just depends on the extent of it and the scale. Piss enough people off enough, and they will want to move. I think we are close personally. It doesn’t take t
by zpeti 5y ago
It just depends on the extent of it and the scale. Piss enough people off enough, and they will want to move. I think we are close personally. It doesn’t take that much for a group of conservative people to move somewhere else if everyone is pissed. They just need another platform.
- MattGaiser 5y agoThe conservatives keep on moving from /r/the_donald to Voat to Gab to Parler. It is just that they end up creating such a cesspool of hate and misinformation that nobody wants to do business with that platform, whether it be infrastructure, payment processors, or advertisers. That makes it unviable in the long term.
- alasdair_ 5y agoThe question is, do “conservative people” only want other conservative people as an audience? While there are plenty of competent conservatives, there also seem to be a lot of people whose primary motive in posting on Facebook is to “trigger the libs” and that doesn’t happen without “libs” to “trigger”
- TheAdamAndChe 5y agoLook at Twitter, you see a similar sentiment on the other side. In the television industry, you've seen a massive segmentation in the news and TV channels over the years. 40 years ago, there were only a few news channels that tried to target the largest demographics possible. Because of that, they largely stayed neutral. However, market competition and other forces have led to a separation between left- and right-leaning news channels. If given the choice, people avoid information that doesn't align with their worldview. Fast forward to now. Social media companies are anything but unbiased, enforcing a mentality of "tolerance," multiculturalism, and cultural relativism. In such an environment, pushback from people who disagree makes a lot of sense, though it isn't good.