given the political landscape of the last six months to a year (maybe longer?), both in the U.S. and abroad, is it time for people who aren't ashamed to express right leaning viewpoints to begin retaking their rightful place in the digital public square?
I understand the hesestince and disgust with the censorship and other nefarious tactics of mainstream platforms like facebook, youtube, and hell, even reddit, but the normies don't exactly come to places like minds, dot win, etc unless they're eyes have been forced open like many of us have. I also suspect that these companies are keenly aware of which way the wind is blowing and would very much like to weather the political shitshow that is such a major paradigm shift in politics.
Timing would be key, of course, but do you think we're getting close to such a singularity?
The thing is, many on the right just haven't even accepted the premise of giving up control of their social lives to anyone at all, regardless of politics. Many just simply enjoy seeing the people they care about face to face instead. We're experiencing a really interesting paradigm shift right now where "what's possible" is being replaced by "what's desirable" in people's outlook.
What we really need to do is forget the idea that social media should be such a large part of our lives. The behaviours we hate to see from far left zealots are self defeating, and their spaces will eat themselves before too long, especially as many of the earnest moderate left types will continue to get pushed out because they need someone to engage negatively with.
Social Media is a large part of modern life because we've atomized so badly that it's the closest thing to creating a simulacrum of a real social network. To actually build out real social networks would require us to have already won the culture war.
Otherwise, the IRL social networks will be mostly political organizing, which is what the Leftists currently do.