03-10-2018, 12:22 PM
I deleted my gab account last night. Just like the one before that one. And the one before that one.
It always starts the same way. When you sign up, the welcome wagon dogpiles the fuck out of you. A week later, crickets.
You have no clue if anyone is seeing your posts on Gab unless they like, repost, or reply to them. Yes, you literally have to reply on external validation cues in lieu of engagement stats. Feels like you're talking to yourself for days in a row sometimes, so why bother?
The whole free speech thing is great -- on message boards like this one. There's only one forum, so you're exposed to every poster's viewpoint. Gab, like all of the other social media sites, may as well be a partisan echo chamber. Not just partisan, but single-issue groupthink echo chamber.
It always starts the same way. When you sign up, the welcome wagon dogpiles the fuck out of you. A week later, crickets.
You have no clue if anyone is seeing your posts on Gab unless they like, repost, or reply to them. Yes, you literally have to reply on external validation cues in lieu of engagement stats. Feels like you're talking to yourself for days in a row sometimes, so why bother?
The whole free speech thing is great -- on message boards like this one. There's only one forum, so you're exposed to every poster's viewpoint. Gab, like all of the other social media sites, may as well be a partisan echo chamber. Not just partisan, but single-issue groupthink echo chamber.
