That makes it sound like it modifies their webpage, which would be evil and bizarre. So there's a GAB page where you type in the url of interest and see what other people have said about the thread or what?

There is a rumor that Gab is a scam. Why so much hate against a social networking website?

What's there thing against Gab?

For all intents and purposes we already have this. For example, right here. And what's useful about discussing links here as opposed to on a social media site that may get extremely popular is that we are small enough to have a real conversation about something. Whereas if Dissenter actually becomes popular, and thousands of people are commenting on the same link, you won't possibly have time to keep up with the conversation. I'm not sure it's going to solve anything at all (and I'm not sure Twitter does a good job of solving anything either).

Also, Google (or DuckDuckGo, if you prefer) should let you find Web sites that are talking about a link quite reliably. So we can already find conversations. And the power of the Web is that it's distributed. Even if Dissenter's operators believe strongly in free speech, they'll need to be hosted in countries that also strongly believe in free speech and don't allow government or corporations to shut down sites. And even then, users will only be able to access Dissenter if their ISPs and network infrastructure continues to let them. So it can still be shutdown quite easily, particularly if the kinds of speech that gets posted ends up being vile enough to attract government attention. Even if only 0.01% of the content is vile enough certain groups will try to have the entire thing shutdown in certain countries, and the current political climate makes that a very real possibility.

I still think it's a good thing to have made. I just question it's practicality. I'd consider using it, after reviewing the privacy policy and terms of service anyway. Which I don't have time to go over right now. Ideally a site like this would have a "no logging" policy so that you're just a number to them, and they have no idea who you really are, and even if government or corporations try to force them to expose that information they'd just say "Sorry, we don't log it, and therefore we cannot." That sort of protection is needed for true free speech in 2019.

Another failing appears to be that neither Gab.ai/Gab.com nor Dissenter appear to currently have a mobile app for Android. Which I think is going to severely limit its popularity right now just because mobile is pretty important in 2019. And it would be a fun thing to screw around with while you're taking a dump on the john.

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On a completely other matter, a local businessman has recently come under fire for posting vile hate speech on a blog. I don't know if nobody noticed until now, but he has been doing it for years apparently. I guess recently somebody figured out who the author was, and brought it to the attention of large clients in town questioning if they should be doing business with the likes of this person. And sure enough, 3 or 4 large clients have now disavowed this company as a result and have dropped their services.

Ordinarily, I'd be opposed to this because people should be free to believe in whatever they want and express those things, without having their livelihood taken away by the angry mobs of social media that have proven their group think to be quite faulty. However, the things this individual posted are indefensible. It cannot be argued that it's a valid opinion to have. He's effectively calling for the murder or genocide of people based purely on race.

He's also calling for attacks on specific members of government. On that front I can at least sympathize because government is surely screwing the people over, and perhaps we need to overthrow them to change the laws so that government works the way we need it to, but what's scary is that he's not just ranting about it. He seems completely genuine. Also, it's a pretty rare occurrence to see pictures of Canadians posing with guns for violence because generally they're hard to acquire and not worth the trouble, but this individual posted pictures of himself posing with large revolvers and has threatened to use them. So yeah, pretty much he's a wack-job. And he's not even young enough to have that as a defense. I'd bet he's in his 50s.

Yay! AK is alive!

That's pretty much the only way that it could work. So effectively it's no different than any other Web site that allows open discussion on topics. Except that presumably it won't be censored no matter what. Which is generally a good thing, but see above. And if it takes off then it could be a centralized place to do so, but see above.

I disagree. They attract a lot of garbage posts, but they also produce a lot of gold. It's just up to you if you wish to weed through the garbage to get to the gold or not. The garbage is a necessary evil to produce the gold. It's largely by accident. Though the garbage serves a purpose too: to remind you how incredibly stupid people are.

Comments are like finding friends. If you want the good ones, you're gonna have to wade through a pool of dicks.

This is worse than Twitter.

It's worse than talk radio.