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Isn’t Gab bigger than Pawoo right now?

• Normille 6y ago
  Yes. By number of users, Gab is by far the biggest fediverse/mastodon instance. However, because people [including it seems the article author] don't agree with the views of many of their users, they pretend it doesn't exist. It's not even listed on various sites which purport to rank such things. The irony of which seems to be lost on the creators of most of these 'alternatives', which trumpet openness and freedom from censorship. But only so long as the views you express coincide with their own.
• gerikson 6y ago
  I think Gab split from the Fediverse? I.e. it’s no longer federating with other instances.
  • shp0ngle 6y ago
    I think it does federate, but most of the fediverse blocks it? Not sure honestly. I’m happy on Twitter edit: yes from what I find it still federates, just all the big instances block it edit2: oh old info. They stopped federating. https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ie49qp/is_gab_still_part_of_mastadon/g3k2q7n/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ie49qp/is_gab_sti... > Gab no longer supports web finger. Web finger is a critical part of federation. If you type in any username@mastodondomain(ie Gargron@mastodon.social [mastodon.social's admin] ) in the search here you will get a result: https://webfinger.net/lookup/ https://webfinger.net/lookup/ > But a@gab.com (Gab's admin) returns nothing.
    • mariusor 6y ago
      Webfinger is a mastodon thing, not necessarily a fediverse thing. ActivityPub services can use Client to Server interactions for user discoverability.