A Little More on Gab
I promised to say more on Gab. Here 'tis.
I am absolutely loving Gab. 300 characters is qualitatively different from Twitter's 140. You can use it as a micro-blogging platform. There's room in a post for a paragraph and a couple of links. And I'm using it that way.
But it's also social media, with lots of back-and-forth. Lots of silly. Lots of serious. Lots of just people being people.
Right now, it's largely a domain of the alt right. Lots of Donald Trump suporters. But they encourage anyone who wants to engage in truly free speech to join the party. And there are a handful of libertarians and anarchists there. Like me.
It's only going to get better. Version 2 ships soon, along with an iPhone app, with Android to follow shortly thereafter.
The beta queue is 100,000, so it may take a while to get in. Nudging @getongab or @torbohax (Gab's CEO) on Twitter can sometimes speed that up.
They just crossed a million posts!