There are many Americans who think that we're in the middle of the American Cultural Revolution. The left, after all, has fully embraced Herbert Marcuse's philosophy that one should never tolerate that which opposes "Marxist / Progressive" thought. Considering that Marxism was almost completely discredited by the 1970s and that the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990 we can understand why the next generation of Marxists reject any competing ideas.
We've seen the evolution of cancel culture: starting with shouting down speakers on campuses; rioting to prevent guest lecturers and to shut down venues. It's now expanded to corporate deplatforming and the refusal to provide service - something that I think has crossed many ethical and legal lines and could have been easily solved by expanding the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include "creed or political opinion."
In response to this new tech platforms have been created: Gab, Minds, Odysee (among many others); as well as distributed communities and currencies. But to what end ask many? We can't duplicate everything, they say, therefore all these new platforms are little more than band aids. To that I say that we should follow that which worked quite well in the Eastern Block during the 1980s: the development of a Parallel Society.
A Parallel Society is, in effect, the development of an alternative, independent "parallel" set of information networks, education, art, culture and social groups. And, while the rise of the modern surveillance state is something Stalin could only dream of - we're not under an actively repressive state - yet. We still have plenty of opportunity to build up such alternative networks.
I have tried out most of the alternative things you mentioned but Gab is basically Twitter, which is something I never liked very much so I'm unlikely to use it. I've only just started getting involved with Odysee. It's gonna take a long time to get people off of Youtube though, that's for sure. There isn't any other platform that can really compete with that yet.
Correct Gab is essentially Twitter. Minds is essentially Facebook and Odysee is YouTube. No one is going to be active on all communities for the simple reason that there's not enough time in the day and, as you pointed out, not everyone has the same interests. But they're there. We see banned Reddit groups creating their own platform and thriving (The_Donald became patriots.win) and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
We will be doing something with making a parallel society. Just watch for some posts in the coming months from @informationwar @truthforce @v4vapid ;)
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You are right. This will be a long and exhausting battle for hearts and minds.
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The "alternatives" are having trouble gaining steam but this was and should be expected. You can't just jump in on a 20 year-old system and become number one immediately. What I am excited about is that despite the big tech's greatest attempts at suppressing all of these platforms, they are still growing.
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