I love gab. Everything about it is great. Yes there are racist there, but gab gives you the tools to filter that crap out. The format is better than twitter and kind of a combination between twitter and Facebook.
As far as gab pay. It’s different and many people may not be comfortable using it but I like that it doesn’t allow the banks to control what we are allowed to buy/sell.
Rather than filter it out, respond to it with facts, tolerance and logic. They (racists, the REAL ones) hate that as much as liberals do (but I repeat myself- to-MAY-toe,
By tolerance I mean putting up with things that I don't much like but that don't really harm me or others. Like the fact that 70% (+/-) of black folks are born out of wedlock. I don't use that because it does me or no one but themselves harm. If I say it, it is processed by others as hate speech rather than as a fact. If the queers want to call their unions marriage, let 'em. I don't agree, but it's not a hill to die on. Bad policies, OTOH, affect us all. YMMV.