Well, lets be fair: Even though Poal or Voat might be the free speech platform Gab should be, we still have to self censor due to downvoting
I'm not against paying ... I just think Gab is asking too much, too soon. It's a bad business model. Since it's basically unusable for it's intended purpose without getting premium service, it doesn't allow a user base to grow to where it's actually worth it to pay up. Most people will walk away when they discover you can't really do the majority of it's functions and no user base means no point in existing.
I mean, do we really have to self-censor? Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I understand the downvotes don't matter.
Suppose I began posting porn, or furry art, or other stuff that the natives considered "degenerate". The downvotes will flow. Poal at least doesn't stop your posting and upvoting ability for it, but still. respond to you also
Yeah, but my question is who cares about downvotes when they have little to no consequences?
I mean, fuck it. There are some cool people here but I generally don't fucking care what strangers on the internet think of me. If I post something on poal that people find genuinely objectionable and I get a metric fuckton of downvotes, that's rough. But no one would stop me, assuming it's not CP or the like.
Downvotes are for what people consider spam. I intentionally decided I did not want a system where something got hidden based on votes or restricted based on votes. Sorted okay. So I'm not sure that qualifies as censorship. Just my 2 cents
I'm curious what you mean by that? How do downvotes mean you have to self censor?
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