Too bad because Twitter needs competition. There was (imho) a deliberate effort to flood Gab with repulsive porn and anti-semitic posts, in order to turn off regular people and thus defeat it as an alternate to Twitter.
I agree and as we can see; a lot of people fell for the scam.
I won’t even make a twitter account but Gab has been pretty good. Granted, I don’t spend much time there, but anything to beat back the anti-free speech techs is a good thing.
Even with the bad racist and anti-Semitic comments. Just put those bozo’s on ignore as they pop up.
Deliberate attempt? People on FR defended it for those posts. No surprise they are failing.
Dead on.
Any site which is not controlled will be flooded with every manner of horrors to drive people away. You can see it in 4Chan before it was taken over by the FBI (literally non-stop videos of cartel killings, tranny porn, antisemitism, racist, etc etc.) and 4Chan now which still has it, but it is in vastly reduced form, likely just posted by trolls who were attracted to the site by what the spooks were posting before it got comped.
And if that fails, they flood it with traffic to drive up bandwidth, and drive it out of business by draining funds, ala 8Chan. With 8Chan it was flooded with anime tranny porn and pictures of real pre-op trans porn right before the Texas Walmart shooter. When that failed, they posted a manifesto from that shooter, to get it deplatformed. That last shooter never posted his manifesto to 8Chan, he posted it to Instagram, and somebody else reposted it to 8Chan. And that was enough to get 8Chan deplatformed as services it needed to host and protect from DDOS attacks refused to serve it anymore.
There is an amazingly organized program out there.
Surely Twitter would not stoop so low?