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I set up an account this evening and it’s unusable due to loading times. They’ve added 1.7m in 4 days which may explain it. Be interesting to see how long it ta

I set up an account this evening and it’s unusable due to loading times. They’ve added 1.7m in 4 days which may explain it. Be interesting to see how long it takes them to scale

um_ya 6y ago
I've been impressed by Gab
- trianglem 6y ago
  Why? Seems like the level of discussion is not all that far away from the level on Parler.
  - outoftheabyss 6y ago
    Or on Twitter, or facebook Curiosity, exchange of views, diversifying the news and information I’m exposed to, follow some people I am interested in hearing from, respect for censorship stance. These are the first that spring to mind
    - trianglem 6y ago
      Promoting fascism is not diversifying views, it’s propagating hate.
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- outoftheabyss 6y ago
  What puts me off Gab and Parler is that the vast majority are those alienated or banned from other platforms for the same reason, for the most part they all think the same way and the topic of conversation is almost exclusively political. Gab has some interesting groups which slightly mitigates this.
  - KLexpat 6y ago
    Gab is #537 highest traffic website in the US, up from #647 yesterday. https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gab.com#section_traffic https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gab.com#section_traffic I agree with you about the political agitation but I would say its becoming less of an issue on Gab. Parler was quite toxic. However, I prefer MSN messenger style chatrooms, so I use Telegram mostly which has now reached 500 million daily active users. These platforms aren't just filled with people banned from facebook anymore, and will become less political as time goes on
    - throwaway3699 6y ago
      It used to be that Parler was clean-ish and Gab was "problematic". Interesting that you think this swapped.
      - KLexpat 6y ago
        parler is owned by partisan media personalities such as dan bongino now. gab is political, but more so in terms of ideas and values. parler is explicitly, aggressively, partisan political from what i can see. I don't use either platform
    - outoftheabyss 6y ago
      I’m not as optimistic as your last prediction, unless Twitter and facebook start eating their own and that Sparks a more diverse range of points of view coming on board. I also think that in terms of interests, people joining these platforms will always have politics as number 1
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      - KLexpat 6y ago
        If they get large quantities of Gen-X and baby boomers to move from FB to Gab, I think that will kill FB. When they open up digital marketing on a platform thats less saturated, that will be the real test though. If Gab can do digital marketing decently corporations will start paying them money and stop criticising them so openly.

I set up an account this evening and it’s unusable due to loading times. They’ve added 1.7m in 4 days which may explain it. Be interesting to see how long it takes them to scale

um_ya 6y ago

I've been impressed by Gab

trianglem 6y ago
Why? Seems like the level of discussion is not all that far away from the level on Parler.
- outoftheabyss 6y ago
  Or on Twitter, or facebook Curiosity, exchange of views, diversifying the news and information I’m exposed to, follow some people I am interested in hearing from, respect for censorship stance. These are the first that spring to mind
  - trianglem 6y ago
    Promoting fascism is not diversifying views, it’s propagating hate.
    - deleted 6y ago
      [deleted]
outoftheabyss 6y ago
What puts me off Gab and Parler is that the vast majority are those alienated or banned from other platforms for the same reason, for the most part they all think the same way and the topic of conversation is almost exclusively political. Gab has some interesting groups which slightly mitigates this.
- KLexpat 6y ago
  Gab is #537 highest traffic website in the US, up from #647 yesterday. https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gab.com#section_traffic https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gab.com#section_traffic I agree with you about the political agitation but I would say its becoming less of an issue on Gab. Parler was quite toxic. However, I prefer MSN messenger style chatrooms, so I use Telegram mostly which has now reached 500 million daily active users. These platforms aren't just filled with people banned from facebook anymore, and will become less political as time goes on
  - throwaway3699 6y ago
    It used to be that Parler was clean-ish and Gab was "problematic". Interesting that you think this swapped.
    - KLexpat 6y ago
      parler is owned by partisan media personalities such as dan bongino now. gab is political, but more so in terms of ideas and values. parler is explicitly, aggressively, partisan political from what i can see. I don't use either platform
  - outoftheabyss 6y ago
    I’m not as optimistic as your last prediction, unless Twitter and facebook start eating their own and that Sparks a more diverse range of points of view coming on board. I also think that in terms of interests, people joining these platforms will always have politics as number 1
    - deleted 6y ago
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    - KLexpat 6y ago
      If they get large quantities of Gen-X and baby boomers to move from FB to Gab, I think that will kill FB. When they open up digital marketing on a platform thats less saturated, that will be the real test though. If Gab can do digital marketing decently corporations will start paying them money and stop criticising them so openly.