an interesting bean 
Did anyone I know actually hang out on a server that ever federated with gab? I’m not remembering a single instance that took a “wait and see” approach with that. (I grant this is a different situation from meta)
Jun 23, 2023 at 6:34pmWeb
Show threadan interesting bean Jun 23, 2023
Like jorts was defedded before their server launched so I have trouble thinking of anywhere else that would move slower
Show threadan interesting bean Jun 23, 2023

Since I’m digging I’ll share the well documented stuff I can find. June 1 it was proposed that tusky implement linking gab users to a certain pop song, added to the app June 17

https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/1303

rick roll instead of logging in on selected domains by mlc · Pull Request #1303 · tuskyapp/Tusky

idea shamelessly stolen from @NicolasConstant's implementation of this for sengi

GitHub
Show threadan interesting bean Jun 23, 2023

Eugen announced Gab was blocked by .social on July 4th

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/07/statement-on-gabs-fork-of-mastodon/

Gab switches to Mastodon's code

After crowdfunding millions of dollars, social media platform Gab abandoned its own code and switched to the freely available Mastodon software in early 2019 as a way of circumventing Google’s and Apple’s ban on their own app from their app stores, since offering Mastodon’s client-side API would allow any existing Mastodon app to be used to access Gab. We have never had any sympathy for their thinly (if at all) veiled white supremacist platform so that was not a welcome move on our part, however the license that we publish our software under (AGPLv3) allows anyone to use it as they see fit as long as they keep the same license and make their modifications public.

Mastodon Blog
Show threadan interesting bean Jun 23, 2023
This vice article seems to suggest that gab switched on federation July 4th as well https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb8y3x/the-nazi-free-alternative-to-twitter-is-now-home-to-the-biggest-far-right-social-network
Mastodon Was Designed to Be a Nazi-Free Twitter—Now It’s the Exact Opposite

Gab, which has been used frequently by neo-Nazi terror groups to organize and recruit, is now the biggest node on the Mastodon network.

Show threadan interesting bean Jun 23, 2023
Full disclosure since I claimed that jorts did a preemptive defed, it did not. In the most jorts way possible, this was because Zoey thought she had done so, but found out a little after they started running on AP that that wasn’t the case
Show threadCheerios de BergeracJun 23, 2023
@timmy Looking at all the anime girl avatars defending free speech in that thread is both predictable and exhausting.
Show threadan interesting bean Jun 23, 2023
@sexybenfranklin I can do worse, I dug up a hacker news thread of the gab announcement
Show threadCheerios de BergeracJun 23, 2023
@timmy Don't fucking curse me with that shit, Timmy.
Show threadBike EnbyJun 23, 2023
@timmy Even shitbag instances don't federate with gab/kiwifarms
Show threadvoronoi potatoJun 23, 2023
@timmy
If my instance did I would move, and if for some magical reason I couldn't I suppose at least there's instance blocking...