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

[Faster Than Chris Robin]

I don't know if it's been mentioned here in the last 10 pages or so, but as of a couple months ago Gab mutes kiwifarms.cc from all of their public timelines. No reason has been given and asking Torba about it directly will earn you a block.

Free Speech

 

[Jaimas]

I don't know if it's been mentioned here in the last 10 pages or so, but as of a couple months ago Gab mutes kiwifarms.cc from all of their public timelines. No reason has been given and asking Torba about it directly will earn you a block.

Free Speech

Torby is a massive faggot and no different from the SJWs he claims to despise.

 

[School of Fish]

I don't know if it's been mentioned here in the last 10 pages or so, but as of a couple months ago Gab mutes kiwifarms.cc from all of their public timelines. No reason has been given and asking Torba about it directly will earn you a block.

Free Speech

Well Gab is all about free speech! Unless it involves any constructive criticism towards Gab and its founder, porn, anime and manga, people shilling for any open source social media platforms that are far better than Gab, left-wing politics, and Kiwi Farms too.

What a joke of a social media platform lol.

 

[Faster Than Chris Robin]

Soydev Alex Gleason, the first to fork Gab's Mastodon fork several months ago, and founder of Spinster, a Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist social media platform based on this software, has been hired by Gab to rewrite the Mastodon backend in node.js or something.

 

[Faster Than Chris Robin]

Soydev Alex Gleason, the first to fork Gab's Mastodon fork several months ago, and founder of Spinster, a Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist social media platform based on this software, has been hired by Gab to rewrite the Mastodon backend in node.js or something.

In addition, he confirmed to me that Gab is finally going to merge the federation fixes that he fixed in his fork of Gab. Gab's retarded devs broke it because they're retarded, and threads with other instances usually appear as orphaned posts because of it. The Gab devs knew about this issue for over half a year, but they're literally the most incompetent people on Earth, so some guy who wasn't even affiliated with them until literally today had to do all the work for them for free over the past few months for anything to happen with it.

 

[AnOminous]

In addition, he confirmed to me that Gab is finally going to merge the federation fixes that he fixed in his fork of Gab. Gab's exceptional devs broke it because they're exceptional, and threads with other instances usually appear as orphaned posts because of it. The Gab devs knew about this issue for over half a year, but they're literally the most incompetent people on Earth, so some guy who wasn't even affiliated with them until literally today had to do all the work for them for free over the past few months for anything to happen with it.

Better a soydev than a Gab dev.

 

[Faster Than Chris Robin]

Better a soydev than a Gab dev.

Alex is actually an okay dude despite being a cuck, Spinster was doing some shady glow in the dark shit under his leadership, but I think he let it become that way out of inexperience, and he did take Gab's mess and made a genuinely decent version of Mastodon with it and that's respectable imo. It's just kinda funny that he, a beta feminist weirdo joined the Gab (see: altrite wignat faggot) team, and that he's probably the most competent person there. I think they're more likely to hold him back than anything tbqh

 

[Faster Than Chris Robin]

Update 3: They fixed threading on Gab, as well as federated likes! Hurrah!

Except you wouldn't even know this if you used Gab, because he announced this in a post with images as an example. Gab censors posts with images from many other instances, and apparently Alex's is one of them xD what a fucking trash fire

 

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Wow! Gab is contributing to something!

Federal Funds Used to Research 'Hate Speech' on Gab

Researchers at USC used federal funds to compile a "corpus" of "hate speech" on Gab, the First Amendment-friendly social media network that provides an alternative to increasingly censorious platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

www.breitbart.com

 

[Faster Than Chris Robin]

Alex has been surprisingly open with deets regarding the direction Gab is going. I don't want to write up a proper post about it but here's a bullet points of things that "might" be happening, but not set in stone:

>Federating post edits. Not a huge deal, really, Mastodon already has this feature in the form of delete and redraft (which is exactly as rough as it sounds) but it'll be a nice streamlining meaure

>Federating quotes: Misskey software already has this implemented, and in basically the same way Twitter does, I suspect they'll take the same route. This one is a supposed definite.

>Brandability: This is a huge one. Firstly; The software itself will not be branded as Gab, it'll be under the "Hydra" line of software. Sounds lame, but it's unimportant thanks to the 2nd point; The software will be natively brandable. By default, you can slap on a logo, rename the posts and titles and anything brand related. So, say... Idk... The Young Turks (a dumb example just roll with it) wanted to give their fans a twitter-like experience because Jack is just so damn infuriating by allowing hateful right wingers on the platform, it would take all of a few minutes to slap their logo on this software, rename "Gabs" or "Posts" to "Armenian Genocides" or something catchy and appropriate to their fan culture, and just use it as their own replacement Twitter platform separate from the reputation of the devs, which you can't really do to the same extent with Mastodon. Brandability is already feature in Soapbox, Alex's original fork of Gab, but he removed many Gab and Mastodon features to streamline the platform as much as possible. Now that he's been absorbed back into Gab, you'll have the benefits of a more extensive featureset and brandability in one, assuming the rewrite goes well it could become a genuinely useful software.

>I also suggested to him decoupling lists from timelines after he complained about the limitations of binary follows. He didn't say yes, but he liked my post, so maybe that's in the future xD I'll keep pushing him on it, hopefully something comes of it.

For the first time since 2016 I have some expectations for Gab, they're the only software running ActivityPub where the devs aren't stagnant, foreign, or obnoxious to deal with. Don't fuck it up Gab!

 

[School of Fish]

Since federal funds were used to research the shit that happens on Gab, I will not be surprised if the FBI keeps tabs on Andrew Torba and his antics and it's because his website is a cesspool of the most deranged individuals that the far-right has to offer.

And it shouldn't be surprising if the U.S. Federal Government monitors Gab especially after the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting since it's well known that the FBI monitors extremists groups (both in the U.S. and overseas) and where they hang out at as well.

The next time Andrew Torba does something really stupid, I can bet that the FBI will probably raid his house and that will be the end of Gab for good.

And honestly I don't think most people (including myself) will even miss Gab anyway if it does shut down in the near future and never comes back.

Alex has been surprisingly open with deets regarding the direction Gab is going. I don't want to write up a proper post about it but here's a bullet points of things that "might" be happening, but not set in stone:

>Federating post edits. Not a huge deal, really, Mastodon already has this feature in the form of delete and redraft (which is exactly as rough as it sounds) but it'll be a nice streamlining meaure

>Federating quotes: Misskey software already has this implemented, and in basically the same way Twitter does, I suspect they'll take the same route. This one is a supposed definite.

>Brandability: This is a huge one. Firstly; The software itself will not be branded as Gab, it'll be under the "Hydra" line of software. Sounds lame, but it's unimportant thanks to the 2nd point; The software will be natively brandable. By default, you can slap on a logo, rename the posts and titles and anything brand related. So, say... Idk... The Young Turks (a dumb example just roll with it) wanted to give their fans a twitter-like experience because Jack is just so damn infuriating by allowing hateful right wingers on the platform, it would take all of a few minutes to slap their logo on this software, rename "Gabs" or "Posts" to "Armenian Genocides" or something catchy and appropriate to their fan culture, and just use it as their own replacement Twitter platform separate from the reputation of the devs, which you can't really do to the same extent with Mastodon. Brandability is already feature in Soapbox, Alex's original fork of Gab, but he removed many Gab and Mastodon features to streamline the platform as much as possible. Now that he's been absorbed back into Gab, you'll have the benefits of a more extensive featureset and brandability in one, assuming the rewrite goes well it could become a genuinely useful software.

>I also suggested to him decoupling lists from timelines after he complained about the limitations of binary follows. He didn't say yes, but he liked my post, so maybe that's in the future xD I'll keep pushing him on it, hopefully something comes of it.

For the first time since 2016 I have some expectations for Gab, they're the only software running ActivityPub where the devs aren't stagnant, foreign, or obnoxious to deal with. Don't fuck it up Gab!

It's Andrew Torba. He can't do anything right and he's going to fuck this up somehow, I can guarantee this. Boomers and technology don't mix that well.

 

[Faster Than Chris Robin]

It's Andrew Torba. He can't do anything right and he's going to fuck this up somehow

As fun as it is to make fun of Torba, he's a figurehead with little actual power in his own company. The one with the reigns right now is a guy named Rob Colbert, who has basically shifted the company to a model of creating semi-disposable open source softwares that can be easily integrated into one another, separate from the actual Gab brand. A really neat idea, even if the man himself is a bit obnoxious. I think there's some potential that's never been there with Gab before. As someone who hosts an instance on the Fediverse, I'm interested in the direction their software goes, and potentially running it myself if it turns out well. It probably has more promise than any other development based on ActivityPub right now.

 

[School of Fish]

As fun as it is to make fun of Torba, he's a figurehead with little actual power in his own company. The one with the reigns right now is a guy named Rob Colbert, who has basically shifted the company to a model of creating semi-disposable open source softwares that can be easily integrated into one another, separate from the actual Gab brand. A really neat idea, even if the man himself is a bit obnoxious. I think there's some potential that's never been there with Gab before. As someone who hosts an instance on the Fediverse, I'm interested in the direction their software goes, and potentially running it myself if it turns out well. It probably has more promise than any other development based on ActivityPub right now.

Well even with any improvements to Gab, the biggest thing that stands in the way of Gab of ever becoming successful is Andrew Torba himself.

The biggest problem with having Andrew Torba as the figurehead of Gab is that he just keeps making a total ass of himself and keeps attacking anyone that doesn't share the same political views as he does and uses the same Nick Fuentes-type talking points to attack people that are critical of him too.

So the way I see it, for Gab to even succeed, Andrew Torba really needs to go because he's just far too toxic and just drives away any potential new users to use his stupid website anyway.

 

[Faster Than Chris Robin]

Well even with any improvements to Gab, the biggest thing that stands in the way of Gab of ever becoming successful is Andrew Torba himself.

The biggest problem with having Andrew Torba as the figurehead of Gab is that he just keeps making a total ass of himself and keeps attacking anyone that doesn't share the same political views as he does and uses the same Nick Fuentes-type talking points to attack people that are critical of him too.

So the way I see it, for Gab to even succeed, Andrew Torba really needs to go because he's just far too toxic and just drives away any potential new users to use his stupid website anyway.

Don't disagree, it just doesn't really matter now that it's open source and federated. Or, won't, assuming the software turns out well, right now they run a shitty Mastodon clone that was duct taped together just well enough for things to work internally. But once that's fixed (and it is being fixed, I have it on good word), if you don't like their community or moderation it takes a couple hours and like $50 to throw up your own Gab clone, and you can interact with all the same accounts you would from Gab or the Kiwi Farms Pleroma, or any other ActivityPub based instance. It's a really cool model.

I'm optimistic, at this point Gab the community and it's retardation is separate from the integrity of the software itself imo.

If it fails tho, I'll go right back to shitting all over every aspect of it.

 

[School of Fish]

Don't disagree, it just doesn't really matter now that it's open source and federated. Or, won't, assuming the software turns out well, right now they run a shitty Mastodon clone that was duct taped together just well enough for things to work internally. But once that's fixed (and it is being fixed, I have it on good word), if you don't like their community or moderation it takes a couple hours and like $50 to throw up your own Gab clone, and you can interact with all the same accounts you would from Gab or the Kiwi Farms Pleroma, or any other ActivityPub based instance. It's a really cool model.

I'm optimistic, at this point Gab the community and it's exceptionalism is separate from the integrity of the software itself imo.

If it fails tho, I'll go right back to shitting all over every aspect of it.

Well so be it.

 

[Faster Than Chris Robin]

Apparently, Gab's frontend will be developed separately from it's backend, this is very good, if the backend software turns out badly you can just switch it out with Pleroma and count on it to run well. Gab has the best Twitter-approximate UI around.

 

[AmbiTron]

So how actually is the Gab Dissenter browser? Worth looking into?

 

[School of Fish]

So how actually is the Gab Dissenter browser? Worth looking into?

Well to be honest, you're probably far better off using Mozilla Firefox or Chromium-based browsers such as Brave for privacy browsing if you do want to get started in protecting your privacy and personal information as well.

Now for Mozilla Firefox it's very customizable where you can get really powerful plug-ins and change the settings to enhance your privacy and browsers such as Brave is a perfect browser for noobs that want to get started in basic cybersecurity and start learning how to stay private online.

And if you really want to see the Internet uncensored then find a good VPN or get the Tor browser and learn how to use it.

The way I see it, you're better off using technology that has been proven to work anyway.

 

[AmbiTron]

Well to be honest, you're probably far better off using Mozilla Firefox or Chromium-based browsers such as Brave for privacy browsing anyway.

So for Mozilla Firefox it's very customizable where you can get really powerful plug-ins and change the settings to enhance your privacy and browsers such as Brave is a perfect browser for noobs that want to get started in basic cybersecurity and start learning how to stay private online.

And if you really want to see the Internet uncensored then find a good VPN or get Tor and learn how to use it.

The way I see it, you're better off using technology that has been proven to work anyway.

Thanks, I'll look into Brave since Dear Leader seems to like it. I'm just a shitty Chrome pleb atm, but I'm pretty sick of Google's shit so.

 

[School of Fish]

Thanks, I'll look into Brave since Dear Leader seems to like it. I'm just a shitty Chrome pleb atm, but I'm pretty sick of Google's shit so.

Now to be honest with Brave, I think it still has a lot more to be desired. It's a good browser for those that want to get started in protecting their privacy but since they still depend on Google for things such as plug-ins (I think you can only get plug-ins for Brave from the Chrome Web Store) and I'm not really too crazy about the cryptocurrency that they use (BAT) since to me there are far better cryptocurrencies out there and I also wish that Brave was as customizable as Mozilla Firefox as well.

So with that said, I would still recommend Brave for those that aren't too comfortable and feel intimidated by privacy-oriented tools. Its a good browser for those that don't know anything about cybersecurity and to get anyone started in protecting their privacy and personal information so there it is.