It's too inconsistent with rules & core philosophy

It's sales pitch is based off of a temporary reaction to the restriction of ideas in the market.

That's not a long-term solution.

Yeah you gotta have something else to back it up. People might come because of the controversy but you have to have a reason for them to stay.

I dunno gab seems consistent enough

I haven't heard of them doing anything questionable yet

You can still be genuine and be poor in business practice.

I have yet to see them make bad business decisions either <:GWcfcThonk:357907199928041473>

the site is amazing

tbh

You're talking to someone who has paid them for their pro service

It isn't to dismiss them entirely. I just don't see their model working in the long run for the moment.

It's going to be interesting to see how they transform though.

If your model only reacts to your competitors, then you aren't steering the market.

There's also the much bigger problem to face: People on average don't care enough about free speech to go in and write their own censor lists.

People have been trained to have the big guys censor for them.

The current model right now is a Free-For-All anti-censorship campaign.

i don't think people are incapable of writing censor lists

They aren't, but it isn't exactly a sales pitch.

I think if Gab provided pre-made lists for people to apply, that's fix a lot of that issue.

the main problem with the censor lists is that I've people remove words like kike and jew from their posts entirely and only link to like daily stormer articles to avoid the censor list

Yeah it becomes a race

Gab is a platform of principle, if you give away pre-made lists you're already not being neutral anymore

And that's the problem.

I don't mind if there's the option to censor for others.

I can handle quite a bit.

I don't expect this for others.

I feel like gab is a reaction to social media censorship, and has corned themselves in terms of business strategy to attract new users.

Not everyone cares about free speech, as much as I'd hate to say it.

Again, it will be interesting to see how Gab evolves.

I don't have to support a business just because it agrees with my views, and I can support a business that doesn't support my views on principle of acceptable business by the laws of the land.

Convenience vs Principle

people often choose the former.

It's going to be one hell of an up-hill battle for Gab.

I think the censor lists will not be as huge an obstacle as one would think

And I think the hot topics provide an incredibly engaging way to entice people to voice themselves in ways twitter doesn't have

but whether gab ever takes off into the mainstream is another question entirely

not until Twitter bans Trump

I don't think gab is less convenient than twitter to be honest apart from the censor lists

twitter ban trump pls

if they offer only free speech they will be stigmatized as alt-white regurgitation chambers