Review: gab.ai

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.