At least it works, unlike billionaire-funded Parler.
If twitter, facebook and google haven't been so gung ho on removing wrong think, gab would have never survived. It's nowhere near the silo that Voat was though. It used to be fairly similar to old voat, but Conservative Inc., Christians and boomers had moved in and carved out a huge chunk away from what it used to be...which gets boring fast. 9 months ago I actually would be in the top 10 daily posts on the popular page with some gardening posts with a few hundred likes. Now you have multiple freshmen congresswomen with 20k likes on top every day.
Super lame
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.
News vs Social Media, sure apples to oranges. But website banned from pretty much every tech, advertising and banking platform being visited more than MSM platforms is significant. Many people use social media as sole sources of news, so it is fairly related in a way.