Since red., DD Geopolitics etc. have been banned from the mainstream social media platforms after the stupidest US State Department announcement, I was thinking twice about joining Rumble. However, the biggest obstacle for joining was queerphobia.
PS: Might invite red. and DD Geopolitics to join the site.
In the streaming space, Rumble is just a reactionary version of Twitch. There's plenty of leftist streamers on Twitch though, like
Each of these streamers streams regularly and has their own respective communities, are protective of trans rights, and none use thought-terminating enemy epithets like "tankie". Leftist Twitch is growing, and nothing like this exists on Rumble, no need to go to reactionary spaces to avoid getting banned.
Twitch is already the reactionary version of Twitch. Twitch is a pro-imperialist platform and even more censorious than YouTube toward anti-imperialists. The post was asking about platforms that won't do the State Department's bidding. Twitch literally complies with anti-Russia sanctions, it bans and demonetizes Russian or pro-Russian channels.
If someone is looking for alternatives to YouTube because YouTube banned anti-imperialist channels that were getting too big, they are definitely not going to find that in Twitch.
Inevitably people who wake up to what is going on in the world are going to want to get away from these highly controlled mainstream platforms which are becoming more and more repressive as the establishment's political control is threatened. Telling people that it's not ok to go to alternative platforms because there is right wing content on there will only have one of two results:
Either they will abandon any nascent anti-imperialist sentiments they may have in order to be allowed to stay on the mainstream platforms, or it will drive them straight into the arms of the right which will welcome them into the alternative spaces and validate their frustration over the censorship and control they experienced on mainstream platforms.