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@realcaseyrollins Actually, I will go ahead and mention my issue with Soap Box briefly.

A big one is when Gab forked Mastodon, they removed many features, like bookmarking, the multiple timeline view, delete and redraft, etc. They supplemented this with neat features like edits, quotes, a dedicated news site, groups, among some other things. But Gab paid no mind to how these things would play in federation, they end up being counterproductive in that context, so Alex removed basically all the unique Gab features without reintegrating what was removed from Mastodon. You're left with a product that is functionally the worst of both worlds in some respects.

That's not to say it's bad software, it isn't, and his branding focus is a common sense measure that Mastodon should have implemented a long time ago, but as a user, unless you're just in love with the UI there's no benefit of Soap Box over Glitch with simple timeline view. Even then, the UI is worse than Gab's tbh, even though it's mostly the same, there were a good few tweaks made, and they're mostly counterintuitive, especially on mobile. @freemo

@realcaseyrollins I'm not talking about Soap Box, which frankly, has a host of issues on its own, I'll go into those some other time. I'm talking about a guy who explicitly wanted his thing to be an alternative for Gab users, but didn't allow hate speech, and somehow didn't make the big brained connection that that would never fly with the Gab user base.

Not that I care, really. I'm not necessarily looking for a Gab alt, I'm using Gab and Glease because I'm supporting both with my wallet, and frankly if I don't use them I'll forget and I'll be charged until the end of time for something I don't use anymore. I'm just clumsy like that. @freemo

Tor browser performance is pretty good. I remember it being way slower around 5 years ago

@NAZl @freemo Wasn't stripping the branding the whole point of tho? That and stripping its multitude of bugs.

@realcaseyrollins I'm not aware of any other Gab instances that aren't defunct. There's Gab, Gab Develop (which is what I'd like to be on, but I don't have a good reason to request it and they have inconvenient domain blocks in place).

Way back someone had made a backup instance for when Gab was totally broken when they first ported, and then someone tried to make an instance that was "Gab, but without Nazis" at one point, but I believe both are dead. @freemo

@dsfgs The alternative suck ass tbqh. It's unfortunate, but have you seen how much spam is on Gab even with the best measures? I think it's probably necessary to keep the site going. Although I agree that in the long term it's best to move away from them. Way too powerful as is.

>I reply to this fully aware that you might be a bot @realcaseyrollins @freemo

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