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I recommend people checkout Dissenter [1] if they are interested in this, it has quite the user base already (almost a million users late 2018 [2]). Some of the
by bArray 7y ago
I recommend people checkout Dissenter [1] if they are interested in this, it has quite the user base already (almost a million users late 2018 [2]). Some of the discussions had on there have been really quite interesting.
My motivation for using their comments add-on is mostly to avoid tracking, although it's quite annoying they rely on Cloudflare.
On a different note, the Wikipedia article on Gab/Dissenter is quite politically charged [2]. It seems that Wikipedia editors are mostly left-leaning (after clicking through several political articles).
[1] https://dissenter.com/ https://dissenter.com/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_Dissenter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_Dissenter
- davidcollantes 7y ago> Gab's Apple Developer account has been unfairly terminated by Apple. Without any explanation. First time I heard of Gab, and/or Dissenter. Unsigned app? No, thank you.
- Nuzzerino 7y agoI can provide a possible explanation. As a former developer of a social mobile app, I'm aware that Apple's app policies require that any social communication features also come with human moderators (the definition of human moderator is up for interpretation). In any case, that is counter to Gab's core philosophy.
- comntr 7y agoLooking at comments for example.com, I understand why they want human moderators.
- lunchables 7y agoI have this vague memory that Gab was associated with some alt-right/neo-nazi/something-or-other thing and I should stay far away. Their website refers to Blocking "Big Tech" (which smells like "Deep State" to me). Is this something I should be using/supporting? I'm not an overtly political person but I just don't want to be in bad company.
- nostalgk 7y agoJust take a look at https://gab.com/popular https://gab.com/popular and you can make your judgement in less than a minute.
- 52-6F-62 7y agoThat was... ugly. And I've seen it before. It seems worse now. I stopped reading when I got to "our race replaced by violent low-iq brown". (in case anyone wanted to dispute the existence: https://gab.com/HankRearden/posts/MHdqTE1hWDFDTTVTR3Biak1velhXUT09 https://gab.com/HankRearden/posts/MHdqTE1hWDFDTTVTR3Biak1vel...) That's enough bull for today. Fair warning to anyone else who decides to indulge curiosity.
- Nuzzerino 7y agoI consider myself pretty open to ideas across the political spectrum and even I could not stand being there for even an hour. Gab is what happens when you combine global centralization with extreme selection bias (people who are excluded or unwelcome from the global community platforms). It's like prison but for the Internet.
- nostalgk 7y agoPrison, but full of people who want to be there.
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- Nuzzerino 7y agoThat's debatable. I know a lot of conservative people. Even the ones who are not extreme (i.e. regular folks that believe in liberty) have a tendency to feel (perhaps rightly so) persecuted by the political correctness in the country/world. Some people may turn to Gab with the feeling that it's the lesser of the evils, or the only place they can feel free from the vice grip of the power elite, but unfortunately that particular environment turns out to be not such a great role model. There are going to be breeding grounds for such views as long as there is an Internet, but those breeding grounds will grow in population in proportion to the additional prohibitions on speech imposed by the mainstream Internet platforms.