What's Gab's end goal with cloning Brave?

[instythot]

You have to pay $60 to bookmark a post, filter your own feed, and.. invite people to Gab

You know, most businesses pay the customer when they refer more customers rather than demanding the exact opposite. Christ, are they bad at literally everything?

 

[CrunkLord420]

I don't know why @Null doesn't just start his own version of twitter

Plemora is on the list of things I might setup, which is "micro-blogging" thing that supports all the popular protocols (Mastadon, GNU Social, etc). I got demotivated on the idea when I saw all the big popular clients (Tusky, Fedilab) blacklist Gab's domain name, meaning the exact same thing could happen to us. If that happens I'd have to maintain a KF specific fork (much like Gab is doing with Brave). No one should trust an APK I've compiled, only the fringe will compile it themselves, and I ain't doing shit for iOS.

I question why all these clients blacklisted Gab while leaving all the lolicon and shitlord servers alone, it kinda seems like virtue signalling.

We'd certainly be added to this de-federating blocklist: https://github.com/dzuk-mutant/blockchain

rick roll instead of logging in on selected domains by mlc · Pull Request #1303 · tuskyapp/Tusky

idea shamelessly stolen from @NicolasConstant's implementation of this for sengi

github.com

zhiyuan-lin/TuskyUncensored

An Android client based on Tusky for the Mastodon without domain block. - zhiyuan-lin/TuskyUncensored

github.com

The federation situation with Matrix (which is chat, not microblogging) is a lot more open. There's one specific federated server that has a block from the official Matrix community channels, but no one has ever been de-federated at scale, though they recently added support for it.

 

[a_lurker]

I don't think there is enough BTC in circulation to fund such a massive tard wrangling operation.

... apparently there is.

Welcome to the fediverse?

 

[nonvir_1984]

Given that some really exceptional and paranoid people who have persecution and violence fantasies have migrated to GAB, I suspect it is infested by various police and intel services hoping to find the next Tarrant. For me it is a look laugh but don't touch.
Brave can better control their browser distribution and its security; but GAB can't do that as wel. And GOK what shit has been put in the browsers. Or click bait photos.
As for what they are trying to do, as others have mentioned you can pay a subscription and get useless premium features - and that warm gooey feeling that you are being oh, so rebellious by supporting some fuckers who are obsessed with free speech of the extremely paranoid and conspiracy laden variety. It is exceedingly funny to see some one linking the Jewish Conspiracy with Chem Trails and Donald Trump and weather control and possible (though not actual) aliens. I guess it makes sense to them. But it is tragic also. I really hope they are all just shit posters. But fear not.

 

[Chichan]

They've just introduced gabPro subscription. Basically you pay $60 a year and you get verified and other pointless nonsense.

I got off the gab bandwagon (despite having 10,000+ followers) when they banned lewd anime. While degenerate, dumb drawings are harmless and gab are no different than SJW platforms in this regard, except they are on the extreme conservative end of the spectrum so they ban the things right-wingers find offensive.

Fuck reddit, fuck twitter, fuck gab, fuck everything and everyone with a cherry on top.

I thought they only banned loli and shota?

 

[MrTickles]

I thought they only banned loli and shota?

They banned it in such a way that it leaves anything remotely triggering on the chopping block. It was under the guise of conforming with Us law, but then what the fuck is twitter/facebook doing, none of that weeb furry shit is banned there.

I find that stuff sad and degenerate but in no way can it possibly hurt anybody outside of hurting people's feelings. If a platform that prides itself on freedom of speech starts policing feelings because it fears the government then you know it has gone off the rails.