Review: gab.ai

3 stars
A simple social network

Gab mixes Reddit’s voting system with what Twitter was before concerns of monetisation began to affect the running of the company.

The service is technically in alpha since a lot of core functionality is still in development. Currently, users can:

  • post text (up to 300 characters per post, AKA a “gab”)
  • use hashtags
  • embed cards of external web pages
  • access emojis by typing a colon
  • embed gifs from giphy.com
  • block users and keywords from appearing in their feed

The userbase is heavily conservative and libertarian but may become more balanced as more people adopt the platform.