I think the point was that conservatives wanted to believe they had a legitimate grip on reality even though the mainstream social networks kept banning them. H

I think the point was that conservatives wanted to believe they had a legitimate grip on reality even though the mainstream social networks kept banning them. Having their own echo chamber safe space let them pretend they were on equal footing with the rest of the world. It's a veneer of legitimacy for an ideology that relies not on factualness but bravado...