Thread by @troyhunt, Next prediction whilst I’m on a bit of a roll: if Gab [...]

Next prediction whilst I’m on a bit of a roll: if Gab becomes the platform the existing violent content on Parler migrates to (and arguably there’s a lot of that there already), the odds of it remaining easily accessible to the masses will be short https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1348021643793190913

https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1348021643793190913

Just signed up to Gab to take a look around, took several minutes for each page to load during registration so looks like they're getting absolutely hammered right now

And they're down. Also just realised they're behind Cloudflare who've previously terminated services such as Daily Stormer and 8chan. Life gets real hard when that protection is removed regardless of how much of the origin services you have complete control over.

Finally completed registration, there's a very, uh, "obvious" skew of recommended groups:

This makes for interesting reading and I'm learning as I go here folks so bear with me while I unpack this: https://news.gab.com/2020/09/30/gab-just-became-resilient-in-a-big-way/

Gab Just Became Resilient In A Big Way

Today is a tremendous milestone for the Gab community. After over a year of work Gab is finally migrated to our own in-house servers. If you talk to anyone in the technology industry they will

https://news.gab.com/2020/09/30/gab-just-became-resilient-in-a-big-way/

"Over the past four years we have been banned from multiple cloud hosting providers" - Joyent ditched them in 2018 after the Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue massacre. GoDaddy also ditched them as did Microsoft.

They were also booted off payment providers including PayPal and Stripe and kicked off Medium as well. So they turned to crypto payments and were summarily removed from Coinbase too: https://www.cnet.com/news/gab-says-it-was-kicked-off-coinbase-again/

Gab says it was kicked off Coinbase

Coinbase, a crypto platform, allegedly closed the accounts of the social network and Andrew Torba, its founder.

https://www.cnet.com/news/gab-says-it-was-kicked-off-coinbase-again/

Same again with Square: https://cointelegraph.com/news/squares-cash-app-blocks-account-of-social-media-site-gabs-founder-report

Square’s Cash App Blocks Account of Social Media Site Gab’s Founder: Report

Square’s Cash App has reportedly blocked the personal account of the founder of controversial social media site Gab.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/squares-cash-app-blocks-account-of-social-media-site-gabs-founder-report

On the app front, Apple declined their store submission due to violating their rules on hate speech: https://www.inc.com/salvador-rodriguez/gab-apple-inauguration.html

Rejected Again by Apple, Gab Says It's a Victim of Anti-Trump Bias

The social network claims Apple is practicing a double standard, holding it responsible for 'objectionable' content that flourishes on other services.

https://www.inc.com/salvador-rodriguez/gab-apple-inauguration.html

Same with Google - Gab was booted from the Play Store due to violating their hate speech policy: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/google-app-store-gab-ban-hate-speech-2017-8?r=US&IR=T

So with Twitter and Facebook now removing more and more inciteful content then Google and Apple nuking Parler from their app stores and Amazon nuking it from, well, the entire internet, this is to be expected: https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1348113606655688705

https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1348113606655688705

And no, the irony of a "free speech social network" disabling replies on their tweets was not lost on me

So to the original point, the chances of all the same content that's been removed from so many other places remaining easily accessible to the masses is... slim.