This is not a "bifurcation of the internet", just different websites/apps used by different people, which really is what the internet has always been about.

Fragmentation of the internet is rather e.g. the Great Firewall of China.

Voat is dead and Parler seems to be mostly dead, so they're not off to a great start.

Gab, Ruqqus, etc. have shot up. Parler also rose astronomically, but they have to find a new host now. Off to a great start, honestly.

Voat is dead, but there's Ruqqus and Poal to name a few.

parler is not mostly dead. what are you talking about? they just found new hosting.

I just checked the app and every request is still failing to connect. I suppose what I'm talking about is the whole, their service not working thing.

"Mostly dead", per Princess Bride, allows the possibility that they will return to life.

I don't get how a bifurcation is supposed to work, Ukrainian grand mothers are supposed to choose between America First and (American only) Black Lives Matter?

Pretty much. America First Streaming is using RedWhiteBlue Hosting, FreedomDNS, etc. and BLM Streaming is using Antifa Hosting, DefundPoliceDNS, etc.

And for the rest of us who are caught in the middle, those above options are all that we have.

Imagine if restaurants only had Kosher and Halal food, but no longer make "regular" food because "regular" people will reluctantly eat Kosher or Halal, but Kosher and Halal customers will not entertain "regular" food.

So the entire stack all the way down becomes bifurcated due to political beliefs.

https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/08/intolerant-wins-dictatorship...

Netflix is fragmenting into Disneyplus, HBO , etc. Facebook and Twitter are fragmenting into a bunch of different 'alt' services

These companies will get completely crushed if the stock market decides that even a company with the scale of facebook can't establish a permanent moat from new entrants. A bit of a MySpace moment happening again

> Netflix is fragmenting into Disneyplus, HBO , etc.

HBO is older than Netflix, as are most of the media companies opposing Netflix. Netflix was first in streaming, but streaming is just a delivery mechanism, the real product is the content and (but for a one-off) they haven't radically transformed that. Netflix isn't “fragmenting", movies and serialized shows are moving from TV/Cable (and, recently, theaters) to streaming for delivery.