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For an alternative platform to flourish, it must attract people with a wide range of interests, not just tech and FOSS. This has to be combined with good moderation policies.
The exact opposite of this is Ruqqus: many of the platform's users don't have really any hobbies or actual interests. They just want to spout racist garbage together in their echo chamber, which is enabled with the platform's reliance on "free speech" and loose moderation policies. When the racists and other idiots dominate Ruqqus, any people with actual interests leave it and any efforts for the platform to "clean up" just go to waste.