A concern among content moderation researchers is that hard moderation measures, such as banning content producers, will push users to more extreme information environments. Research in this area is still new, but predominately focuses on one-way migration (from mainstream to alt-tech) due to this concern. However, content producers on alt-tech social media platforms are not always banned users from mainstream platforms, instead they may be co-active across platforms. We explore co-activity on two such platforms: YouTube and BitChute. Specifically, we describe differences in video production across 27 co-active channels. We find that the majority of channels use significantly more moral and political words in their video titles on BitChute than in their video titles on YouTube. However, the reasoning for this shift seems to be different across channels. In some cases, we find that channels produce videos on different sets of topics across the platforms, often producing content on BitChute that would likely be moderated on YouTube. In rare cases, we find video titles of the same video change across the platforms. Overall, there is not a consistent trend across co-active channels in our sample, suggesting that the production on alt-tech social media platforms does not fit a single narrative.

翻译：内容审核研究者担忧，封禁内容创作者等强硬审核措施会使用户转向更极端的信息环境。该领域研究尚属新兴领域，但因上述担忧而主要聚焦于单向迁移（从主流平台至替代技术平台）。然而，替代技术社交媒体平台上的内容创作者并非总是主流平台的封禁用户，他们可能跨平台保持共现活动。本研究探索了两类此类平台的共现现象：YouTube与BitChute。具体而言，我们描述了27个共现频道在视频制作上的差异。研究发现，大多数频道在BitChute上的视频标题中使用的道德与政治词汇显著多于YouTube。然而，这种转变的动因在不同频道间存在差异。在某些案例中，频道在不同平台制作不同主题的视频，常在BitChute上发布可能在YouTube被管控的内容。罕见案例中，同一视频的标题会随平台改变。总体而言，样本中的共现频道未呈现统一趋势，这表明替代技术社交媒体平台的制作模式难以用单一叙事概括。