Social media platforms popular with right-leaning users are having difficulty attracting a more mainstream user base as they try to expand, a major obstacle to conservative hopes for ending the liberal chokehold on social media.

Conservatives are worried that if alternative social media companies such as Parler, GETTR, and MeWe only succeed in attracting Trump supporters and Republicans, the platforms could be doomed to niche status — echo chambers that are no fun without liberals to debate with and troll.