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Gab Just Became Resilient in a Big Way

• vuciv1 6y ago
  Well, ya told them to make their own, and they did. Kinda jealous, pretty cool to not be reliant on third party hosting
  • posguy 6y ago
    They are relying on Wordpress to support the blog we both just read, and their entire platform is a barely maintained fork of Mastodon: https://code.gab.com/gab/social/gab-social/-/commits/develop https://code.gab.com/gab/social/gab-social/-/commits/develop This is not a high effort endeavor, the reskinning Gab did was the bare minimum to steer users to buy Gab Pro and try to stop said users from getting scammed by competitors (press F12 on a Gab page on the main site to see their hilarious warning message).
• deleted 6y ago
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• r721 6y ago
  >September 30, 2020
• cft 6y ago
  They are still dependent on Cloudflare. And their datacenter can cut off their power in theory.
  • posguy 6y ago
    Gab swapped one set of vendors for another. Now they are at the mercy of Cloudflare, ProtonMail, Wordpress, their new underlying server vendor and any security vulnerabilities that pop up in their haphazardly maintained forks of the libre software that powers their website.
    • aheckler 6y ago
      > Now they are at the mercy of Cloudflare, ProtonMail, Wordpress WordPress is open source software, not a company or platform. No one can stop anyone else from using it, provided they have some sort of hosting. You may be thinking of WordPress.com, run by Automattic? Disclosure: I work there. :)
      • posguy 6y ago
        I hope your aware that this Gab blog is using your companies products, specifically stats.wp.com