Gab can't even accept payments from Visa, MasterCard or Paypal. The options are crypto, physical check or ACA transfers. Some banks will reject the ACA transfer supposedly. That makes it very hard to get money from normies. There is not a cloud service in the world that would host them, they have to buy all of their own hardware and have to do everything possible to keep the datacenter locations secret to prevent the whole cancel culture shutting down their last remaining providers.
Torba has refused VC funding for years, which was brilliant considering what happened to Matze from Parler (VC board fired him from CEO position, a history that the Mercers have done many times before).
Gab has 5 engineers. They have shut down for weeks at a time for major updates. There are no ads. Where is this money they are making? I own a whole percentage portion of their private stock, there are not profits.
Yet they still are alive when a billionaire-backed parler model crumbled within a few hours
It works like a WC.
I have posted before how the free market isn't actually free and suppresses free speech. Social media are protecting their profits by removing objectionable content.
Shit rolls downhill and global platforms like gab can scoop up enough to make money.