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Lol they list Parler. RIP Parler.

Also, still like 50/50 a honeypot. Possibly accidentally.

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(((100% Kiked Up))) has partial funding from the Geller family that also runs (((Gateway Pundit)))

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The whole list is like 50/50 a honeypot.

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DUCK DUCK NO! it's run by you know who

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Parler's toast, Gab will follow soon (if it hasn't already, domain no longer resolves with Cloudflare...). Stick to decentralized solutions like Mastodon, Pleroma and GNU Social. There is a healthy ecosystem out there of federated networks that support free speech; and setting up your own node takes less than an hour (I timed it!).

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Gab is decentralised, they run their own custom Mastodon node, blocked by all other Mastodon administrators, and hence not propagated, but the principle is decentralised and open source.

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Story time - but in short, no, Gab is not decentralized.

They started gab.ai back in the day by forking the Mastodon codebase and changing it to suit their own needs, and they did initially federate with the other Mastodon/Gnu Social instances. The Mastodon devs (and big chunks of the "fediverse" as a whole) are a bunch of totalitarian commies so a lot of them did block or stop federating with Gab. But there is a large (and rapidly growing) chunk of instances that are very free-speech focused who did federate. Later on, Pleroma entered the scene and provided an alternative to Mastodon that had sane devs who were more focused on free speech than on blocking it.. Pleroma uses the same federation protocol as the others (Activitypub).

At some point, the Gab developers made some massive changes to the site that completely broke federation. Torba didn't care and just told them to leave it, probably hoping people would join Gab instead and give him more money, I dunno. The end result is that Gab no longer federates with other Activitypub-based nodes and it doesn't look like that will change any time soon. Torba is creating his own walled garden at this point.

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You are probably right, I joined Gab when it was Gab.ai and I remember it all started as a Mastodon node but they have changed a ton of things since then.

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Gab site is still up for me: https://gab.com/ although I don't use it.

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The don´t mention Poal.co or any other Reddit alternative. The other services they mention, half of them can not be trusted, like Telegram, it doesn´t use end to end encryption by default.

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they didn't even mention reddit let alone alternatives.

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You can name the jew and say "Nigger" on Flote.app

Fuck (((Gab))) and (((Parler))).

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can we sticky this?

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I'm curious what you think about the app Signal. It says that it's completely open source; if that's true, it's a pretty good start. Are there any cons that we should know about?

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As far as I know the crypto has been pretty thoroughly peer-reviewed and there is source code available for the app + crypto implementation. If I recall it did associate my account with my phone number at sign-up.

I've seen Antifa fags using Signal and their middle and upper management tends to be pretty tech savvy as they are composed of mostly middle management from various tech companies.

I've been looking at Wire also because my understanding is that is another implementation of the same crypto used by Signal. Wire also DID NOT require a phone number when I signed up.

That said, you should assume that any Internet-based comms is not completely trustworthy. 1) Best way to defeat crypto is with a rubber hose. 2) It's entirely possible alphabet agencies have quantum tech that can defeat what is currently the best crypto available to private citizens. 3) Side-channel attacks abound.

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Wire is excellent, but it was started by a small Swiss company and they didn't market their services well. It used to have bugs as well so they got rated low on the Jewgle Play store.

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Signal I am not too keen on, and won't trust just yet.

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I know how you feel, it's been pushed by mainstream-ish sources a bit too much for my taste. I just learned today about the open-source aspect of it, but I would like to hear insights from somebody who looked into it a bit more.

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The main con of Signal is that it requires your phone number for registration. But so do WhatsApp and Telegram.