> mostly around election denial, Q etc.

I m not american and i don't care at all about those

> nobody is completely deplatformed

I m pretty sure there are quite a few who have been chased out of the internet completely , without being illegal

> What if nobody uses the publicly funded alternative, because it's crap?

So what, public TV usually doesnt get high rankings but is still valuable. It's still better than having no platform at all

> don't believe you can say they acquired them all themselves

They should at least have a real way to get a copy of their audience, through some well defined protocol. The friend identifiers they get should be actually usable, enough so that they could find their audience in another platform.

Mastodon is actually a good platform to use for a public platform, and i look forward to seeing publicly-funded servers.