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Link to Rob Colbert’s comment disparaging ActivityPub: https://gab.com/shadowknight412/posts/104220064117832818

I will have to sit on this a while before replying to him. I can’t even decode my own feelings yet. Still too shocked.

@billstclair @SandiaMesa @alex @death @niggaflamebuttholeaids @realcaseyrollins

To be fair he seems interested in valid counter arguments:

https://gab.com/shadowknight412/posts/104220159780270475

@issdeinschnitzel @SandiaMesa @alex @death @niggaflamebuttholeaids @realcaseyrollins

He also just spent a likely-low-sleep week getting his server operating again. To me that means at least three nights of proper rest before his brain is functioning well enough for creative thought.

@billstclair
He should leave #Gab. It's not worth it. They are needlessly working him to death, having him fix problems that shouldn't have been there in the first place, but were placed there by rushed ineptitude.
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@realcaseyrollins
We have our own thoughts about Gab.

Everything we've seen from #Cloucflare indicate that their priority is in creating and tracking #radicalised persons, the "#freedom" angle is the #massLine to cover the #classLine, being #militarisation of the #internet.

In this context it makes perfect sense for them to try to isolate #Gab users. Isolation will help to breed the #extremism that a few want.

@billstclair @issdeinschnitzel @death @niggaflamebuttholeaids @SandiaMesa @alex

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We would like to thank @aktivismoEstasMiaLuo for helping to open our eyes to Gab, late last year.

#eyesWideOpen #china #india #bolshevics #germany

@dsfgs
Valid point. Still, I disagree. I am beginning to suspect that the goal was just to dump Nazis into the #Fediverse and lower their own load.
@billstclair @issdeinschnitzel @death@husk.site @niggaflamebuttholeaids @SandiaMesa @alex @aktivismoEstasMiaLuo

@realcaseyrollins
But you see "sunlight is the best disinfectant".

This is why we didn't like the mastodon.social (again #Cloucflare at the time!!!) campaign to isolate the Gab users.

Thankfully, not all the instances banned #Gab. So the light was able to break through.

We believe one of two things will... (1/2)
@billstclair @issdeinschnitzel @death @niggaflamebuttholeaids @SandiaMesa @alex

@realcaseyrollins

We believe one of two things will happen.

Gab will magically find money (and resources) for an aggressive campaign to onboard #dissaffectedMen between 18-35 yo.

Or it will close down.

Judging by the state of things, our bet is on the former.

@billstclair @issdeinschnitzel @death @niggaflamebuttholeaids @SandiaMesa @alex

@dsfgs
No chance of them getting that money, hating on Jews as they do
@billstclair @issdeinschnitzel @death@husk.site @niggaflamebuttholeaids @SandiaMesa @alex

@realcaseyrollins @dsfgs @issdeinschnitzel @death @niggaflamebuttholeaids @SandiaMesa @alex

Why do people think that Gab hates on Jews? Yes, there are definite Jew haters and other haters on Gab, just as there are everywhere else. But they are a small minority. A handful of mutes got the noisy ones out of my feed. The only difference is that being reported for expressing hate on Gab is not a reason to be censored or silenced there, only actual illegal speech under US law.

But mention Gab on Gargron's instance, in any but a negative light, and he'll boot you. So who's the hater?

@billstclair
You do know I was joking right?
@issdeinschnitzel @death@husk.site @niggaflamebuttholeaids @SandiaMesa @dsfgs @alex

@realcaseyrollins @issdeinschnitzel @death @niggaflamebuttholeaids @SandiaMesa @dsfgs @alex

Missed that. It's so hard to tell nowadays, with so much hate about having an opinion different from The Party's.

@billstclair @realcaseyrollins @alex @dsfgs @SandiaMesa @niggaflamebuttholeaids @death @issdeinschnitzel If we simplify it & neglect that #Gab spews a concentration of #Trump-aligned values (#xenophobia, racism, misogyny, homophobia, elitism, anti-public healthcare, anti-public education, pro-forced birth, anti-gun control, etc), the mere fact that Gab is on #CloudFlare is sufficient at least for non-CloudFlare nodes to cut ties.

@issdeinschnitzel @death @niggaflamebuttholeaids @SandiaMesa @dsfgs @alex @realcaseyrollins @billstclair A #Mastodon admin who centralizes their node on #CloudFlare is at a loss for understanding or appreciating the #decentralization arising from federating. The loss of #netneutrality breaks Mastodon.

@billstclair @realcaseyrollins @alex @dsfgs @SandiaMesa @niggaflamebuttholeaids @death @issdeinschnitzel E.g. when a user in the free world w/a proper acct & a text-based client sees a copy of a post sourced from CF's #walledgarden, in some circumstances they're blocked by a (often broken) #Google #CAPTCHA if they try to see the source (e.g. if there are images)