The reason I don't use Gab isn't "not enough censorship", it's because none of the people I want to talk to are on there.
I use Twitter because the people I like are on there. They often get banned for dumb reasons, and I'd prefer they didn't, but the general network effect of Twitter is strong enough that people will just make new accounts and/or avoid posting stufff that trips the censors.
Plus, as some other comments mention, Gab does not in fact "not delete anything unless it is found illegal by a court", their TOS[0] says they can ban you for posting obscenity. Why would I want to go on a website full of white-christian-nationalists if I can't send them goatse?
My (main) point was not that Gab is perfect. The main point was: Gab is banned by all these evil app stores, cloud services and financial processors, still it survives and functions. That means - you can have your ideal Gab without relying on these nice monopolists too.
My wish list for such an ideal Gab would be:
- only illegal content should be banned and by legal process only;
- the moderation should be decentralized and placed in each user’s hands. My blocking you should mean I won’t see you, but all others will.
That way you may post all goatses you like, but the “suprematists” (and me) wouldn’t see them. Unless you’ll post some clever things from time to time, not only goatsees, then I would rather read you. But my decision to see or not your posts should not affect other readers.
"When you vote in favour of a person, you are making that person a moderator for yourself, regardless of whether they win the vote or not.
There is no such thing as becoming a candidate. You just flip the mod switch on from Preferences. This will enable the mod UI in your client, and you can start modding. This will generate moderation graph entities originating from you. These will only be valid for you, and the people who chose you as a mod (i.e. voted for you) in that community. This will also make your name appear on the elections list. From there, people can check your past actions without applying it onto their own client first, and your reasonings for them (Mod actions provide an optional ‘reason’ field to be filled in). If they like what they see, they will vote for you, and for the person voting, you will become a mod. That means your mod actions from that point on will start to affect what that user sees.
Election makes it so that the people who come into a community, who have not chosen or disabled that particular mod by themselves, will use the mod list shaped by the elections. If a user has explicitly chosen a particular person to be a mod in that community, that takes precedence. Likewise, if a user has disabled a mod, that person will never be a mod for that user, regardless of the results.
That is all being a mod is: some people liking your curation enough that they decide to apply your curation to their own view as well."
That was ... kind of the idea behind Google Plus. But I imagine that there would still be loud constituencies who couldn't rest at censoring their own feed.
I use Twitter because the people I like are on there. They often get banned for dumb reasons, and I'd prefer they didn't, but the general network effect of Twitter is strong enough that people will just make new accounts and/or avoid posting stufff that trips the censors.
Plus, as some other comments mention, Gab does not in fact "not delete anything unless it is found illegal by a court", their TOS[0] says they can ban you for posting obscenity. Why would I want to go on a website full of white-christian-nationalists if I can't send them goatse?
[0] https://gab.com/about/tos