Since Election Day, I've noticed something of a mass exodus among my friends on social media to alternative, free-speech friendly platforms such as Parler, MeWe, and Wimkin (but not Gab, strangely enough). This comes along with the same wave that's ditching Fox News in favor of NewsMax (or OAN) and Rumble in favor of YouTube. For years now, whenever Facebook or Twitter bans a conservative for seemingly no reason, the left will just laugh and say, "They're a private company! They can do whatever they want! If you don't like it, build your own Facebook!"
Well, now people seem to be taking that call more seriously. Something about the election caused a dam to break. I think part of it is the obnoxious alerts YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter are plastering everywhere, reminding everyone that Joe Biden won, the election was fair, and anyone suggesting tere was fraud is going to be slapped.
Whatever the reason, all my conservative friends are actually leaving for other platforms for the first time. This, of course, was on the one thing keeping these platforms from being successful — actual users. None of these friends, as far as I know, have been censored in any meaningful way, but they're leaving more as a form of protest.
But now I'm wondering if the left are right are only going to create their own echo chambers as a result.
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