4 ms·

Gab will. Not because the current site is that good, but because Torba understands that a blockchain based distributed social network that is able to compensat

Gab will. Not because the current site is that good, but because Torba understands that a blockchain based distributed social network that is able to compensate content creators is the future: https://gab.ai/a/posts/13902759 https://gab.ai/a/posts/13902759 and he has the money to support building it, with gab subscriptions providing an infinite runway, the StartEngine 1M+ campaign, his legal warchest for the fight w/ Google, etc.

jonknee 9y ago
Did you read the article? It's not about competing social networks, it's about regulators. > Pressure is mounting, at home and abroad, from legislators, regulators and activists, all looking for various ways to nudge and, in some cases, shove Facebook to acknowledge and act on its responsibility as the most powerful distributor of news and information on Earth.
- quantumofmalice 9y ago
  Right. I guess I should be more explicit in my prediction that the market will move faster than the governments will. I know that people here don't like Gab, but looking at it rationally they look like the most likely challenger in that the leadership understands the coming tech stack that will route around whatever governments and private consortiums come up with, and they have the cash on hand and ideological commitment to do it.
  - tstactplsignore 9y ago
    Dear lord, they have an image problem... I quickly checked the site and all of the content they show on the front page (is this like an automated sampling of recent posts?) is atrociously sexist and frankly really low bar content intelligence-wise. (I guess you can find equally dumb stuff throughout the twitterverse, but I can't believe they're using it to market on their homepage) I'm surprised, I thought early adopters would be more thoughtful silicon valley types. Can't see anyone I know switching to it any time soon.
    - quantumofmalice 9y ago
      Yeah, I agree. They need to have an ideological filter for the popular page or, better, do something like an ideological page-rank algorithm so it can be personalized. Right now it is pretty shocking content, a result of Gab's commitment to free speech and the purging of the (alt) right on other social media platforms.
LyndsySimon 9y ago
I don't know. I really liked some of Gab's features when it was relatively new, especially the more advanced and fine-grained "self-censorship" tools that allowed you to do things like establish a blacklist of words that hid posts from you. Once they tied the growth of the platform to a political ideology, I did what I could to try to increase diversity of opinion there. It didn't seem to work; Gab has become the far-right version of Reddit's /r/politics.

jonknee 9y ago

Did you read the article? It's not about competing social networks, it's about regulators. > Pressure is mounting, at home and abroad, from legislators, regulators and activists, all looking for various ways to nudge and, in some cases, shove Facebook to acknowledge and act on its responsibility as the most powerful distributor of news and information on Earth.

quantumofmalice 9y ago
Right. I guess I should be more explicit in my prediction that the market will move faster than the governments will. I know that people here don't like Gab, but looking at it rationally they look like the most likely challenger in that the leadership understands the coming tech stack that will route around whatever governments and private consortiums come up with, and they have the cash on hand and ideological commitment to do it.
- tstactplsignore 9y ago
  Dear lord, they have an image problem... I quickly checked the site and all of the content they show on the front page (is this like an automated sampling of recent posts?) is atrociously sexist and frankly really low bar content intelligence-wise. (I guess you can find equally dumb stuff throughout the twitterverse, but I can't believe they're using it to market on their homepage) I'm surprised, I thought early adopters would be more thoughtful silicon valley types. Can't see anyone I know switching to it any time soon.
  - quantumofmalice 9y ago
    Yeah, I agree. They need to have an ideological filter for the popular page or, better, do something like an ideological page-rank algorithm so it can be personalized. Right now it is pretty shocking content, a result of Gab's commitment to free speech and the purging of the (alt) right on other social media platforms.

LyndsySimon 9y ago

I don't know. I really liked some of Gab's features when it was relatively new, especially the more advanced and fine-grained "self-censorship" tools that allowed you to do things like establish a blacklist of words that hid posts from you. Once they tied the growth of the platform to a political ideology, I did what I could to try to increase diversity of opinion there. It didn't seem to work; Gab has become the far-right version of Reddit's /r/politics.