1) DuckDuckGo is great for search.
2) Protonmail is great for email.
3) gab.ai instead of twitter (heard about it but never used it; I guess twitter has some use...).
4) Voat instead of Reddit (it seemed to offer the same capabilities when I visited it a bit).
5) Facebook, nothing like this should even exist but I'm sure there is some alternative out there.
Is that because they were the first to be kicked off reddit/twitter? So, reddit/twitter used to be "filled with" them?
Just think of it as part of a lifecycle then. If normal people start moving to voat, the bad people will make up a smaller and smaller percentage. Then they move to the next site, and voat becomes taken over by political forces, repeat.
Also, I'm thinking if you don't like one of the alternatives for whatever reason, is it really that hard to create one of those sites? I heard somewhere Voat was created by one guy as a hobby. A good search engine seems like it would be the most difficult one.
gab.ai used to have a variation on that stupid pepe frog as its logo, for example. They're aiming at a specific crowd.
You didn't comment on the second part, so I'll assume its correct. If it isnt that difficult to make these sites, what is the need for some sort of regulation? Someone just needs to make a new site and the people complaining about being censored/whatever can go there.
That said: You're making the classic developer mistake of confusing the ability to technically build a piece of software with the ability to build and sustain a community of users who use that software. Tossing code together is the very easy part when it comes to online communities.