David Bond @DavidBond@qoto.org

I have noticed, someone replies to a Gab post outside Gab, all you can see is the single reply not the whole feed or the total conversation. I suppose thats because of the vindictive admins bunging up the works. People are so pathetically petty minded.

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have you ever noticed that the people who complain about #Gab non-stop are also the same people who pre-emptively blocked it? they've had Gab blocked for over 2 months now, longer than it's been on #Fediverse, and they're still bitching and whining about it. Do REAL activism like feeding the homeless or unionizing workplaces you fucking nutcases!

Traditionally in america I was always left leaning, but in modern times I'm strongly anti-left in the USA.

Oddly in the usa i lean right of center, in the netherlands I lean strongly left.

Funny how that works. If the left just cut out the violence and anti-free speech nonsense I'd happily go back to supporting them in the USA again.

#uspol

If you post something on social media, you are explicitly inviting people to comment and share their opinions. If that is not your intent then set privacy settings accordingly.

Regardless if you post something and are offended by respectful differences of opinion, and go so far as to silence those opinions, then **you** are the problem.

If you expect people to listen to your views on blast without giving them the common decency to reply, and be listened to in return, its time for you to reevaluate yourself because you are likely the perfect example of why the world is falling apart right now.

Ain't that the truth?

My sister is very concerned with me being on Gab...

We had a discussion about it over the weekend and she is nervous about me signing up to a site that - according to Wikipedia - "has been widely described as a "safe haven" for extremists including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the alt-right."

Let me be clear, I'm NOT saying that I support hate speech, Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and the alt-right. (I'm not even clear on what some of those terms mean).

To me, signing up to Gab is about planting a flag in another social network to demonstrate to the major platforms that I don't support their largely arbitrary censorship rules.

In the course of defending my position on free speech with my family over the weekend, I've realised that the big issue I see is that the large majority of the discourse that happens online is controlled by a few big companies (Facebook, Twitter, etc).

These companies are set up for profit and so of course, they are going to do what's best for business. They are not primarily concerned with making sure the right content is censored or allowed.

I don't think that the people that run these companies necessarily have the wrong intention. The problem I see is that speech shouldn't be controlled by such a small number of companies

The future? Maybe it's decentralised social media.

In real life, there are certain things you wouldn't talk about at work and certain things you would or wouldn't talk about with your family.

I think that this is probably the best way to control speech. To decide within smaller groups what is and isn't acceptable in that context.

I haven't looked too much into it but perhaps decentralised social media or at least, having a distribution of discourse happening across multiple platforms (rather than just a few) will provide a better balance of freedom and safety for all.

Thoughts?

How #Mastodon users look when they talk about #Gab users.

So I made a bot that posts my friend @Hero7Dave 's tweets on gab and it its working. I want to freak him out and show him later but it would be funny if his gab posts had lots of comments and like.

"Dude look at this account on gab!! WTF"

Everyone help me out 😉🤣 -> ⚡@Hero7Dave 🤣