Let’s get GABby
March 4, 2021 12:57 am Leave your thoughts
So I made a GAB profile.
Difficulty: Easy, but learning it seems tougher, especially if you don’t have a lot of time. It looks like Facebook.
Time spent: Not much time spent using it so far. I think it’s still hammering out the way it’s going to run so I check it sometimes but I don’t know enough on how to use it properly yet. I’ve seen some hilarious memes etc
Reasons to get a GAB account: I heard it was an alternative social media platform by people who believe in free speech and privacy. No adverts every 4th story in your newsfeed. Memes memes memessss memes! Some of my favourite content creators are here.
It still seems a little wonky and apparently it was hacked a few days ago so I’m just chilln and putting up some blog posts. It’s my hope it’ll become one of the most-used platforms in the near future because the principles (from what I see so far,) make sense. I used to be able to promote posts elsewhere (that were about my books to make them easier to find) and now I can’t use the word “gun” in a keyword description alongside war, secret agency, conspiracy fiction, fiction, thriller, female lead etc. They’ve gone a little mad in their quest to nerf the world and make sure no one ever has an original thought. The “gun” tag is important because the RavenEye is a futuristic weapon that isn’t like anything on the market and is important to the story.
Facebook, Twitter and others are dying platforms. They used to be places where people could express themselves and stay in touch with their own page/profile. In the beginning they wanted YOU, a product to barter with and sell on and sell to so it was free and you could sign up easily. That’s okay, it’s a business and you consented to it (if you actually read the Terms and Conditions) in the early days. But as everyone is finding out, the Ts and Cs change. Yours truly has never signed up to the official Facebook messenger because of the flimsy language in the agreement that gives them all the rights and you the right to STFU and be spied on.
Some social media platforms have become overly-political tools and psy-op cesspits. There are voices being silenced in favour of the same comments and content spouted by people who are establishment-preferred. When a person of a certain political opinion says something and the other side says exactly the same thing but is run out of town in response, that’s a problem. My disdain for the MSM has also grown(if that’s even possible) because I feel like I have no horse in the race really, apart from always wanting Normies to wake up through access to information, but I’m constantly bombarded with what I “should” think by agenda-driven or paid-off sources.
Certain hashtags are allowed to “trend.” Others are taken down, “interpreted” as offensive or advocating violence…and then you see the same platforms allow hashtags about (literally) murdering certain politicians. Known terrorist organisations and people involved in the child pr0ns still have social media accounts, but people holding different opinions to the biased-mainstream are yeeted off the face of the platform. The blatant hypocrisy is laughable, and probably only until recently mostly unnoticed(by regular people) because a lot of people have short attention spans from the influx of new technology, blue light and the celebrated throwaway, instant culture so we don’t remember what happened past a three day news cycle.
I don’t believe in the argument “Well, it’s a private business so they can do what they like.” These platforms have deliberately dominated the digital town square by letting people think they can build their own page and space, and are now silencing people that don’t fit an agenda. When CEOs donate to political campaigns or take aim at anything that counters establishment ideas, it’s time to pay attention. And this section of the post is not in support of a particular individual/s but something to consider as I’ve written about here.
Some ideas aren’t good ideas. Some arguments are silly. Some people talk poop…but people have the right to listen to all of them and make their own
personal decisions. They don’t need a tech giant with agendas to tell them WHAT to think, and certainly not HOW to think. The only way a bad idea is countered properly is with a better one that makes more sense.
GOOD IDEAS DON’T REQUIRE COERCION OR FORCE.
So you will not get my vote, my support, my compliance by doing that.
I appreciate debate, and the presentation of ideas. I also love a good echo chamber on this topic (ngl.) Here’s hoping I get some laughs out of GAB and maybe find some people who would like to read about Agent Darkrose and her Deep State life.
TLDR:
*I made a GAB.
*I like memes and free speech.
*Not written in support of anyone in particular, just observation.
*Red Cowboys is coming
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