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iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years agoI am on both sides of this. As @masterofballs@wolfballs.com aid, these technical decisions are sometimes really necessary. After 2020 election, Gab was unusable. Its running really smooth now.
If they don't prioritise opening up GAB with an alternative to ActivityPub, then you could be right, they just want to maximise their platform.
Personally I don't think its a big loss. Ever since I've been on Wolfballs, I have understood the power of the federated platform, and I think its the future. Gab as a platform isn't so relevant, I think personally.
What is truly amazing is the parallel economy stuff Gab is creating. I am waiting to sign up to GabPay, and I am hoping that it will really accelerate the splitting off from Amazon/Visa/Paypal/Google
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
It's ultimately their choice, and that ability to choose is definitely part of the point of diversifying, I'll admit that. I'm also biased in part because I run all my own websites, and so interoperability means that my users and I can participate, whereas platforms that don't are just as much behind an iron curtain just the same as Facebook is.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Someone is downvoting you as soon as you post.....
Anyway, I fully agree. I don't really know what Gab's roadmap is. I hope they keep developing stuff that other open sourcers/startups can use, like Gabpay.
But the GAB platform is rather boring. Even if they opened up, I don't really know if many people would be interested....
The only 2 notable people I know there are Donald and MTG. And frankly I stopped reading Donald's tweets on GAB, they were not inspiring.
I think Donald needed the pushback from lefties on Twitter to really make his message relevant. Otherwise his words just are kind of empty on their own.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Donald Trump isn't on gab. Gab just mirrors his blog. I started doing that here too to c/trump.
Also no one is down voting him. Federated users do not get their own upvote automatically for some reason. He's coming from a different app lotide I think and federation between the two is still a little wonky.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Ah, thanks for that info. I did wonder, because Torba said he turned down Trump team because they wanted control.