Social networks are natural monopolies. You go where your friends already are. Once there, you tend to stay there, rather than going through the whole process again on some other site.
In this case he appears to have half-assed it. It's not impossible that his following was devoted enough to jump through those hoops. He'd have needed a catchy app and a constant stream of content to make it engaging. Maybe a whole Twitter clone ecosystem might have done it, but that comes with a ton of headaches. (Even the free-est speech platform doesn't like being overrun with spammers, for example.)
Instead, he seems to have counted on his notoriety to do all of the work, and that was surely not going to cut it.
Perhaps his followers are less enthousiast than they appear on tv but surely installing an app has to be less of an effort than putting down a sign or joining a protest march, right?
Twitter allowed him to reach reporters who read, spread, and amplified whatever he tweeted.
I suppose Mike Lindell can help with that. He has recent relevant experience.
Twenty year old blog technology with no social aspect (and fake upvote buttons) is hardly spectacular. It's not the game changer he promised.
They can, but they're just not interested
I'd guess same is true of fans of every politician
Just moreso with trump
The medium is the message
You can't reproduce the hatred and clown show asthetic with long blobs of text
You need tv
Anything inherently devoid of the possibility of meaningful conversation, thinking, thoughtfulness, etc.
Trump's blog was styled like Twitter, complete with a "like" icon on each post. The button was broken; clicking it didn't do anything.
They're holding back everything, including shareholders. Break. Them. Up.
It indicates nothing of the sort. His site was on the public web, freely accessible to anyone with a browser. It was being shared on social media. There were no "monopolies" holding him back, rather, he's no longer politically relevant, so his garbage content isn't worth covering, and his base has all but lost interest in him.
