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Packt reports that Gab's Dissenter browser extension was removed from Mozilla's Firefox add-ons on April 10th (people already using it can continue to do so), and was booted from Google's Chrome browser the next day. Gab pitches itself as an anti-censorship social media platform that only prohibits speech that is illegal. Their Dissenter browser extension and associated website allow people to share comments about any webpage, giving users the ability to share comments on articles, videos, etc., regardless of whether or not the website hosting the content has a comments section. Mozilla's rationale for the ban was that Dissenter was being used to promote violence, hate speech, and discrimination, but they failed to show any examples to bolster that claim. Gab plans to develop their own browser in response.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @06:14PM (5 children)
most people on gab's like to discuss moronic shit but in this case yes, mozilla people in conformity with corporate mandated rules surpassed all that moronic shit and embarased themselves with their i-can-only-act-as-the-holly-coc-says-cause-i-follow-rules-instead-of-think
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Saturday April 13 2019, @06:34PM (4 children)
This is true enough, but then again, the same statement (different moronic shit) applies to all social media as far as I've seen.
Biggest problem I have with GAB is that there's spillover sometimes and you get whackjobs leaving their own channels and slipping their views into unrelated channels. Judicious blocking solves this, but you have to be willing to put up with an occasional idjit long enough to mute-forever.
The keyword is 'occasional', I can manage occasional via muting just fine. This is far Far FAR less annoying (for me) than, for example, Twitter, where it is not occasional but rather an unending stream of reality-free groupthink relentlessly pounding your eyes until your blocklist soars to heights such that Elon could hitch a ride to Mars and save all that development cost.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday April 13 2019, @06:43PM (3 children)
Bigger userbase and some filtering or separate "bubbles" could be the answer. Maybe Mastodon [joinmastodon.org].
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(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Sunday April 14 2019, @02:40PM
I do have a mastodon ID floating around, but it's pretty much abandoned.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 14 2019, @03:36PM (1 child)
I would like social networks that avoid bubbles and mix up the freaks with the normies and the intellectual assholes.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday April 14 2019, @03:51PM
I think in the case of Mastodon, you would go to the largest, most general purpose instances.
That's a nice sentiment but I think the large clusterfucks will tend to diverge over time, and the more niche bubbles will be seen as more useful. Smaller forums/communities tend to be more polite, on-topic, and can be focused on a particular interest.
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