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That's a lot of very specific claims with no corroborating details, to the point I wondered whether it's real at all.

Seems to be, headed by a Chris Bedford (apparently a The Federalist Senior Editor?).

https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/29/finding-creative-intern...

Looks to me like a landing page for a probably still-being-built service.

It's pretty obviously a response to the Parler incident, so I wouldn't expect them to have the infrastructure actually up and running yet.

this is what we in the cynicism business call "vaporware".

It could be, but I think vaporware requires a certain amount of time to have passed without it turning into something real. I don't think we've met that threshold yet.

Good points have been made about the hosting for rightforge.com - it looks like bargain-basement hosting so if there is anything like what was described in the podcast behind it, there better be a lot more coming to light soon to back it up.

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