They stayed on YouTube because being on YouTube gives you access to a billion or more users. That’s reason #1.
Reason #2 is YouTube is by far and away the most potentially lucrative video upload service in existence today.
As a creator, taking your content to an obscure platform that has a tiny amount of users, does nothing to increase engagement and increase brand influence. This says decreasing potential earnings.
It really amazes me how little understanding of social media there is in conservatives circles. To many self-identified conservatives simply don’t understand how social media works either for consumers or creators. Conservative creators and consumers disconnecting from Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and the rest of the mainstream social media platforms is EXACTLY what the tech oligarchs are trying to accomplish.
Yes, they’d love it if we stuck to our tech ghettos. Much easier to make people appear like crazy terrorists that way. (Of course, eventually they’d exterminate those ghettos along with us too, but these are the first steps.)
When you go to other ones, they will grow. Staying with the leftists just supports them. Your thinking is very much like the thinking that we must vote for RHINOs because a new conservative may not win, but the RHINO still votes with the libs. So, I stand by what I said.
Obviously the oligarchs want creators to leave youtube, but those creators who want to upload wrongthink material have no choice but to do it on other platforms. And some of those platforms offer more than a "tiny amount of users." The Trump address had over a million views if you add up the coverage. I watch Bitchute every day. Some use both YT for content that sneaks by the censors, and and other platforms for wrongthink.