Social Network Gab Goes Offline, Disappears from Twitter

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Post by bdibs » Sat, Feb 20, 2021, 12:38 AM UTC

Social Network Gab Goes Offline, Disappears from Twitter
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#2

Post by _prototype_ » Sat, Feb 20, 2021, 2:02 AM UTC

Not a peep in here, interesting...

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#3

Post by underseacables » Sat, Feb 20, 2021, 2:11 AM UTC

First they took away the soapbox, now they take away the public square, there’s just something deeply unsettling about deplatforming. Maybe it’s not possible to create an independent social network after all.

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Post by bdibs » Sat, Feb 20, 2021, 2:15 AM UTC

underseacables wrote: post #3

First they took away the soapbox, now they take away the public square, there’s just something deeply unsettling about deplatforming. Maybe it’s not possible to create an independent social network after all.

Who's the they here? I thought they were hacked, not deplatformed by any of their service providers.

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Feb 20, 2021, 5:24 AM UTC

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Post by a3n » Sat, Feb 20, 2021, 8:51 AM UTC

underseacables wrote: post #3

First they took away the soapbox, now they take away the public square, there’s just something deeply unsettling about deplatforming. Maybe it’s not possible to create an independent social network after all.

Independent from what?

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Post by jki275 » Sun, Feb 21, 2021, 6:23 PM UTC

_prototype_ wrote: post #2

Not a peep in here, interesting...

Probably because it didn't actually happen.