Andrew Torba / Gab (Gab.com / Gab.ai) / Dissenter (dissenter.com) - An incompetent captain sinking millions of other people's dollars.

Random Internet Person said:
What happened that this guy spent 220K? Is he like Yandere Dev buying a subreddit?
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Once upon a time long long ago(2000's) people would think up names and then buy them for like 50 cents, then they would squat on them until they could charge someone a shitload of money. Like grocery chains, film production company names, shit like that. Then someone came up with the idea of making more dot's, .cc .me .UK ect.
Instead of thinking up a creative name or going with a different dot, he must have decided to just buy one of the most expensive three letter words left in the .com space.
I mean, who wants their site to be GAB-Social dot com or something.
 
Random Internet Person said:
What happened that this guy spent 220K? Is he like Yandere Dev buying a subreddit?
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“Gab.com was purchased for over $200,000 on Sedo. It appears that the social network then acquired the domain on Flippa for $220,000 last month. It had been using Gab.ai for its web address.”

https://domainnamewire.com/2018/10/29/godaddy-tells-gab-com-to-find-a-different-domain-registrar/

Also found a thread from around the time Gab was losing GoDaddy hosting, featuring Epik CEO Rob Monster.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/so...y-24-hours-to-transfer-or-suspension.1107245/
 
CIAnIUMU said:
“Gab.com was purchased for over $200,000 on Sedo. It appears that the social network then acquired the domain on Flippa for $220,000 last month. It had been using Gab.ai for its web address.”

https://domainnamewire.com/2018/10/29/godaddy-tells-gab-com-to-find-a-different-domain-registrar/

Also found a thread from around the time Gab was losing GoDaddy hosting, featuring Epik CEO Rob Monster.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/so...y-24-hours-to-transfer-or-suspension.1107245/
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Spent almost a quarter million dollars for those sweet sweet C O M letters.
 
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I got curious about that "Have I Been Pwned" number people are claiming is the total number of accounts, so I went on their site.

I have three accounts. Not one of them is compromised.

My assumptions, then, are either that only a very tiny amount of data has been given to anyone, or that only a very tiny amount was collected, and the hack has largely been a PR play.

Not an excuse for letting it happen in the first place, yada yada, It's just an acknowledgement of reality.
 
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Random Internet Person said:
Is that a lot by domain standards?
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Yes, but three letter .com domains are generally incredibly valuable. Ones that are actually words are even more so.
CIAnIUMU said:
Also found a thread from around the time Gab was losing GoDaddy hosting, featuring Epik CEO Rob Monster.
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How much of an utter retard do you have to be to think you'd be able to host something like Gab on BlowDaddy?
 
AnOminous said:
How much of an utter retard do you have to be to think you'd be able to host something like Gab on BlowDaddy?
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To be fair it wasn't nearly as obvious back then. Very early on in the cancellation trends. A few got it earlier than 2016-2017 but it became a well-known issue after that.
 
Carlgon McVaginalflap said:
I got curious about that "Have I Been Pwned" number people are claiming is the total number of accounts, so I went on their site.

I have three accounts. Not one of them is compromised.

My assumptions, then, are either that only a very tiny amount of data has been given to anyone, or that only a very tiny amount was collected, and the hack has largely been a PR play.

Not an excuse for letting it happen in the first place, yada yada, It's just an acknowledgement of reality.
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It’s classified as a sensitive breach, meaning you have to sign up for breach notifications with your email and they’ll email you about the breach. You can’t publicly search sensitive breaches.
 
CIAnIUMU said:
It’s classified as a sensitive breach, meaning you have to sign up for breach notifications with your email and they’ll email you about the breach. You can’t publicly search sensitive breaches.
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Is it really?

There's zero sensitive information so seems bizarre. Other metrics also lean credence to the idea that the number is too small. Gab used to report its metrics to relays and ActivityPub data aggregators and it wasn't even that small a year ago. The Alexa ranking and others are too high for that to realistically be the case, there's simply no way that 95% of traffic is read-only.
 
Carlgon McVaginalflap said:
Is it really?

There's zero sensitive information so seems bizarre. Other metrics also lean credence to the idea that the number is too small. Gab used to report its metrics to relays and ActivityPub data aggregators and it wasn't even that small a year ago. The Alexa ranking and others are too high for that to realistically be the case, there's simply no way that 95% of traffic is read-only.
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There’s a lot of people on Gab who signed up either just to post about their day or check Gab out who don’t align with the sites political views. It’s sensitive so people can’t just input someone’s email and incorrectly assume they share the political beliefs associated with the site. Do you still have access to any of those email accounts you used to sign up?
 
CIAnIUMU said:
There’s a lot of people on Gab who signed up either just to post about their day or check Gab out who don’t align with the sites political views. It’s sensitive so people can’t just input someone’s email and incorrectly assume they share the political beliefs associated with the site. Do you still have access to any of those email accounts you used to sign up?
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I did, and I checked it properly. My main account is there, but my backup account with only a couple posts is not. Not sure what bearing that might have on it 🤷‍♂️
 
Carlgon McVaginalflap said:
I did, and I checked it properly. My main account is there, but my backup account with only a couple posts is not. Not sure what bearing that might have on it 🤷‍♂️
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Weird. I wonder if Gab has the same problem as Parler, not deleting accounts but just marking them as deleted. Troy Hunt thinks the lack of email addresses might be due to how the data was dumped.
 
CIAnIUMU said:
Weird. I wonder if Gab has the same problem as Parler, not deleting accounts but just marking them as deleted. Troy Hunt thinks the lack of email addresses might be due to how the data was dumped.
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Yep, pretty sure that's how Mastodon handles it, I doubt Gab changed anything.
 
Carlgon McVaginalflap said:
Yep, pretty sure that's how Mastodon handles it, I doubt Gab changed anything.
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Hmm. I had an account back before the 2018 shooting that I never posted under and deleted within a day of making it. It was under a throwaway email I no longer have access to, I wonder if it’s in there.
 
Drachenlord said:
I wish Dissenter had a wider usage, the basic premise behind it (allowing comments on any webpage/article) is pretty nice in times where news outlets all turn off their comment section for fear of wrongthink or being debooooonked.
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Would you call Dissenter the one good thing Gab could offer to the wider Internet?
 
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