The problem needs to be solved one way or another because things are spiralling out of control. The solution isn't "conservatives should just stop not saying what I want them to say" as that will never happen.
The open source community didn’t just complain about the closed source products that other vendors released. They created their own alternatives.
Why can’t conservatives come up with successful forums? Are there no conservative entrepreneurs with the technological wherewithal?
I think it's not intellectually honest to believe systemic issues in one instance require intervention, but not in the other.
There are enough conservative outlets that should both be willing to fund the development and for a marketing outlet.
Hell, I am the furthest thing from a conservative but if conservatives are really so inept that they can’t create their own forums, give me the money. I’ll figure it out. I’m not going to do your marketing for you. But if an atheist can make it big selling bible apps,I’ll take their money to create a forum.
Oh and BTW, I think I probably know a little more about “systemic racism” than you do. You can’t imagine the looks we got when we first started searching for homes and getting one built in the neighborhoods where “we don’t belong” or the number of times that consultants came in to talk to the dev lead and started talking to one of my reports and walked right past me.
They are simply cynically using the fears/persecution complexes of conservatives (many of whom have huge audiences on the social networks they claim are oppressing them) as a ploy to seed their network with a large pool of users.
If the people migrating really cared about tech censorship, they'd launch a Mastadon node.
It’s surprising that so many conservative groups who are the first to want deregulation and the free market when it suits them wanted government interference when big tech was being mean to them.