Comment by javajosh

5 years ago

Maybe. But there's probably a business model out there this is simply a Twitter clone that waits for the Trump account to move there, and bang, instant success.

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Tenoke  5 years ago

There is and they (Gab) get an okay number of likes on every one of his posts promoting it. [0] Also Facebook is now well positioned to be his next platform if he moves off twitter.

0. https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1266347307391488002

  • hn_check  5 years ago

    Trump isn't moving to Facebook, regardless of Zuck's attempt to pandering to his childish outbursts. Twitter is precisely suited to Trump's micro-tantrum thoughts, where Facebook is orthogonal. I would argue that the brevity of Twitter, and the adversarial nature of it, made Trump and the imbecile-right (e.g. not conservative -- it's a bunch of flag wavers who have close to zero political lean of knowledge...they just want to hate).

    P.S. I know this comment is auto-dead, and that's okay.

    • bambataa  5 years ago

      Out of all the social networks, isn't Facebook the one that has the most Trump supporters? Twitter is notorious for being full of the woke left. Most people only find out about Trump's tweets because they get reported somewhere. Facebook is nowadays the preserve of older moms and pops.

hoppla  5 years ago

Or mastadon! Whitehouse could have its own server, and would not need to worry about sensorship

hn_check  5 years ago

Gab has been the theoretical right-wing Twitter for years. It wallows in mediocrity.

Trump and his cult are on twitter to try to bask in the legitimacy. If they're on their own, the raw charade of how childish and imbecilic their noise is becomes too obvious.

It's also a bit hilarious given that Gab, created because of crybabies like Trump and Scott Adams, has hilariously restrictive policies, just as The_Donald is one of the most snowflake-moderated subs on Reddit. The right really can't stand each other.