Posted on 09/11/2022 11:57:13 AM PDT by for-q-clinton
Gab is an amazing social media forum. They don't moderate users, well except for porn and direct threats of violence. It also has more features than Truth Social, Twitter, and even Facebook.
I even created a group (just now) and made it private called "Freerepublic". I'm hoping more users go there to experience what freedom on the Internet is like.
Also here's a tip: You can create your own filters to block things you don't want to see. Like N-word, Hitler, Obama, etc...
I’m on Gab.
The Hitler devotion and constant dropping of N word really doesn’t bother me for some reason.
It’s kinda like being addicted to a certain dealers heroin, and then that dealer gets abusive so you choose to go to another heroin dealer instead.
Or you can do the hard work and quit heroin.
I quit. These platforms have too much power to influence and control - and just because they echo my sentiments doesn’t make it anylessso than the competitors product.
“N-word”
Which red-blooded, Caucasian, American, Conservative male would want to block the N-word? It is one of the staples of our vocabulary, don’t you know? Well, at least, that is what the communists say! ;-)
Some only pay lip service to free speech.
Truth also swallows your post if it doesn’t like it. It’s gone, never got posted, and you never see it again. Truth is highly censorious. A very overrated platform. Happened to me already today.
I haven’t enjoyed Gab for awhile, but I put in a request to join your group.
But you’re on FR. In case you didn’t know...this is social media too ;-)
Yep. Everything got turned into a Jew-bashing thread. It’s like StormFront just moved over there.
“I seem to spend most of my limited time there blocking anti-Semitic and vulgar posters.”
That goes for ALL platforms, and unless you’re living under a rock, we see this on FR too. I cant block idiotic fag threads, zelensky threads, anti Trump threads atc. etc.
I heard Jared Kushner urged Trump to avoid Gab, because Gab wouldn't censor anti-Semites. So Trump went to Parlor, and now Truth Social.
I also hear that Gab is an echo chamber. Like Parlor, Truth Social, and Free Republic.
An "echo chamber" serves a purpose, but it does ghettoize conservatives, preventing us from influencing mainstream, moderate, and independent voters.
Twitter and Facebook are where the audience is. FR, Gab, etc. are members of the choir posting to each other.
I just got permanently suspended on Twitter, they are evil.
My problem is there are now too many social media sites, and it takes a lot of effort to add followers. Try @DaxtonBrown, I think that’s my Gab account.
I prefer to spend my time in FREE REPUBLIC!
Oooops, I’m @daxton_brown on Gab
Thanks. That’s the beauty of gab. You don’t really need followers (like twitter).
It has groups you can join (some public some private...like the one I created https://gab.com/groups/67851 ). So you join and get the content you like. Kind of like Free Republic.
I’ve been getting more dissenting opinions on Gab lately. Apparently the left likes free speech too. But it’s definitely not like FB or twitter where really only left is allowed to speak freely and you get ganged up on for dissenting.
I follow various interest groups on Gab and enjoy the wide variety of viewpoints. The memes are great. Probably not great for sensitive types, there are no sacred cows. The few liberals there try to hold their own on relatively unfriendly ground and that is refreshing when compared to other social media sites where the conversation can be shut down immediately if “thought crimes” are alleged to have occurred.
“The not so secret about twitter is half of their traffic or more is porn.”
I didn’t realize this. Did an image search for
tits site:twitter.com
And got an impressive number of results.
That was my experience as well.
Join a private group too. Then it’s more like FR. Like this one: https://gab.com/groups/67851
Many of those were leftists giving the platform a bad image...they knew they could do it since they don’t moderate. But see my posts up a little ways explaining how to use filters. You can block most of that stuff yourself and not have to see it.
Thanks for that.
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