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Title: GAB.ai - Social Media without censorship
Post by: CosmicWeaponOfThule on May 30, 2017, 04:45:31 AM
This might appease a specific group of people, considering all the stuff FB deems as "Hate Speech" and shit getting shut down. This is supposedly the alt right/PC alternative to twitter. While on one hand the idea of a social media profile being shut down for some NS graphic or something is quite comical, if you want to promote stuff social media is where you do it so a non PC alternative might be a helpful tool to some people. The people who built this apparently realized the best solution to combat online hate speech is to just prevent the people who find it offensive from seeing it.

Winter Solace GAB Profile (https://gab.ai/NSNinja)
Interview with Founder (https://youtu.be/HMFvWPNa0OM)
Wired Magazine (https://www.wired.com/2016/09/gab-alt-rights-twitter-ultimate-filter-bubble/)
Title: Re: GAB.ai - Social Media without censorship
Post by: F_c_O on May 30, 2017, 11:25:07 AM
Not sure how useful tool this is for promotion, unless it grows its userbase to rival something like twitter or facebook. Otherwise youll just have extremely limited exposure through it. Even with censorship, I feel most people gravitate towards facebook/twitter/etc simply due to the fact that everyone else is already using those platforms. On other hand, I am not dismissing that this could grow into platform for some small subculture that would get censored from bigger platforms and if you want to advertise to only such people and don't look for wider audience, then yeah, it might work for you.
Title: Re: GAB.ai - Social Media without censorship
Post by: tiny_tove on May 30, 2017, 06:28:16 PM
lol, founder looks like a twatt to me, but interesting article.
Title: Re: GAB.ai - Social Media without censorship
Post by: .:Will:. on June 12, 2017, 07:34:12 PM
Does anyone actually use this service besides that guy from Winter Solace?!