I thought that was the reason they didn't want to do it in the first place. But for whatever reason they changed their mind. Which was good, because I know of a

I thought that was the reason they didn't want to do it in the first place. But for whatever reason they changed their mind. Which was good, because I know of at least one instance that did not ban them. Also I think they tried selling the idea of other people running Gab instances to federate with each other. But I guess it was just too much to keep up with or something as they made their own changes to it. Gab is really scrappy, to say the least. They might hate Silicon Valley but they've most definitely adopted "move fast and break things".