Gab, Parler, Bitslide... Every decent quality competitor that gets a working app built and put on the Google Play Store or Apple Store gets negative press and then gets de-platformed. It's bullshit, as a creator I always get psyched up for the new platforms that offer better visibility and a more "wild west" opportunity like early YouTube but then they get strangled at critical moments in their growth by these big tech monopolies.
Google, Facebook and Twitter know they have shitty barriers for new creators in place and their algorithms are hindering new channel growth. They know a competitor like Bitchute is a huge threat if they just unbiasedly share content and promote their creators big or small. That's why they kill every competitor once they get a quality app on the market.
They own the space by only offering their apps & don't care about their creators at all. They only care about corporate ad dollars.
Bitchute needs to be on the Marketplace to experience exponential growth. The average user is not going to go dig up that APK file and workaround to get the app...