[CathedralBorrow]

They definitely exist, and can be installed to home screens.

It is however a huge hurdle to user acquisition, which is the angle I was referring to. The obscurity of Gab kind of supports that point. All kinds of products and services can exist, but if you get booted of all the main channels you are doomed to be an obscure niche at best.

[neartheplain]

Maybe. That said, Gab just added 3 million users in 12 days:

https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1351448855422799874

I created an account out of curiosity, and three of the default “Suggested Groups” were for QAnon conspiracy believers. One group has over 100k followers.