This is an excellent point, let me reply in the form of a thread. I think one immediate point to make is that there is an asymmetry between ppl on the left and the fascists that is little recognized bc fascist and adjacent theories have been so normalized. Fascists have nothing interesting to say 1/

When Trump was finally banned from Twitter (note: he should have been banned much earlier, because he violated so consistently Twitter's own terms and conditions) a lot of the far-right went to Truth Social and Parler. But these platforms were big failures 2/

The Spectacular Failure of Right-Wing Social Media Platforms

From Kanye West (maybe?) buying Parler (but why?) to Donald Trump’s flailing (and scammy) Truth Social, the “free-speech” revolution is floundering.