Gab, and the fediverse

Why I decided to block gab.[com|ai], and some other thoughts.

It has not gone unoticed, but gab – the plattform that champions “free speechs” has joined the fediverse. Why? Because probably (hopefully) they are running out of money.

4th of July, 2019 – gab did enter the fediverse with glory and might. Users loved it and the software was great!

gab-5 No it was'nt. People hated it and complained everywhere over the extremely bad performance and the unreliable service. I enjoyed the show, it was great because it means that gab is loosing money when the deploy did not work well. gab-500 gab also uses cloudflare gab-cf

gab-error

The funny thing aside for a moment, and lets focus on the dangerous and evil side of gab. Gab claims to be a champion of free speech, sadly this has turned into a harbor of extremist – actual Nazis.

I decided to create an account on the platform to observe it myself. I did not have to scroll much to be greeted with this: gab-1

More: gab-2

And more: gab-3 This was presented to me withing the first minute.

gab-trending So much for the All are welcome slogan.

You maybe wonder – why does a platform allow content that celebrates genocide, fascism , violence, hate, and authoritarian governments and hides it in the free speech bucket? I do not know, I honestly do not know. The founder of gab – Andrew Torba – is even a proclaimed christian. Is'nt christianity supposed to be the opposite of the content that is spreading on gab?

This is why I have suspended gab on my instance. And if you as an admin does it – great! But it would also be great if people could federate with them to be able to ridicule them (or as some people calls it – virtual milk-shaking).

We can't let history repeat itself.

Note: I do publish social.linux.pizza's blocklist here