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GAB CHAT: #FAQ #GabInformation #Chat

From Gab developers:
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There are 3 types of "chat rooms" in Gab Chat and each are designed for different uses. It's simple.

👥 1. Public

At first, *only Gab* will be able to create public rooms. All OTHER rooms will be private/unlisted. Public rooms are *NOT encrypted*. They are also listed in a directory and you can *search for them. People do have to be logged in to see them, join them, and read their contents. Gab accounts are free, so anyone can end up in any public room anywhere unless they have been banned from that room by Gab.

🔐 2. Private

A private room is an *encrypted* private user-created room with DYNAMIC membership. This means people can *come & go*, new people CAN be invited at any time.

👂 3. Direct Messaging

DM rooms have *limited* membership. When *creating* a DM room, you indicate the members. Members can leave a DM room, but new members can *NOT* be invited or *join* a DM already in progress. This is for security reasons.
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🎉 Public rooms are intended to be fun spaces where people can meet, greet, discover new people to follow, make new friends, and (most likely) head off into other smaller conversations elsewhere. They have the potential to be large and chaotic. If you've ever seen chat on an 80,000-viewer YouTube stream, then you know what to expect if they get rowdy.

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❗ Private rooms are rooms ANY user can create and invite people to join. They are ENCRYPTED. The room creator is free to invite people at any time, and people can leave them at any time. Private rooms are only ever "listed" to their members. No other user on the site can see them, who's in them, or their contents.
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🤫 Direct Messaging rooms are just private rooms that do ⭐ NOT accept new members once they've been created. No, there will be no way to add a new user to an ongoing DM (at least at first). Over time, we may add a voting mechanism that will allow bringing new users into a room, but this will require *unanimous consent* from all room members.

👉 Always use a Private room (not a DM) if you need dynamic membership. This is a hard platform rule and will not be changed. Additionally, DM rooms can't be converted to any other room type. Because that is a security violation for the people in them and subject to abuse. So, no.

Reason: If I join a DM with you and say something I intended to stay between the members of that chat, that's how it's going to be and I can trust that. The >> only way someone unauthorized will read my DM chat is if a member of the room divulges the contents of the chat. So, it's up to me to only enter DMs with people I >> trust and say private things.
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Some of this may change a little before first release, but this is the first *real* version of Gab Chat.

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