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Is there a large enough presence of "non deplorables" on these sites to worry about unnecessary and unintended polarization due to these purges?

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Your use of the phrase "non deplorables" suggests that polarization exists outside those sites.

Honestly: no. I'm a classical liberal and a long time Twitter user, and I intensely dislike Twitter's recent move to the left (Peter Fonda making death threats against the president, Sarah Jeong making a massive series of racist tweets, and Louis Farrakhan comparing Jewish people to termites, all still having Twitter accounts) but gab doesn't appeal since I don't want to be in a right wing vacuum either.

Currently Twitter with a long list of block words is about the best I can get.

As someone on the other side of that, I have to agree with your strategy; I'm on the far-left side of Twitter (about as left as it gets) and although my list of blocked words is short (usually to get rid of right-wing posts but liberal ones too sometimes), it's the best I can do without moving to a much smaller platform.

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