IMHO if they can’t host themselves they are not really viable...
You mean like Twitter and Facebook provide their own hosting? Which they don’t... They run on Oracle ExaData servers hosted in AWS. (Or Google CP). All Facebook does is buy capacity by the rack, using its own customized servers.
To suggest Gab doesn’t deserve equal treatment because you don’t find it interesting is silly
“if they can’t host themselves they are not really viable...”
What is involved in hosting one’s self?
I plan to open a site and just assumed that a hosting service was the way to go.
Maybe a link to an article of it’s complicated?
And then there is the corollary to your asinine argument...
If you aren’t guilty you shouldn’t care if we come in and rummage through your pantie drawer.
Even if they host them selves. There will always be a backbone provider willing to cut them off.