Gabbers and #Gab spinoff site Spinster co-founder continue to notice our organizing with concern. Good job everyone.

@isolategab The #Fediverse needs to grow and supplant the centralized forms of social media. Gab is a very large instance. We should see their addition as a large victory. As the #Fediverse expands your subset of it will shrink smaller and smaller. The only ones you'll succeed in isolating is yourselves. This will also not prevent anyone from laughing at you while this happens, myself included 😉. Bye bye! 👋

@terryenglish @isolategab I do think that gab must be isolated. I don't want to use a fediverse software maintained by fascists. PERIOD.

@buoyantair @terryenglish @isolategab You probably use plenty of software made by fascists without even knowing it, tbf.

@umbr3lla Maybe, but being aware of it and making conscious decisions to move away from such software and ecosystems is what matters the most.

@buoyantair The point being : a technology isn't defined by the people who made it. If that was the case, you would be back to stone age.

@umbr3lla That's where you are going wrong. Your work defines everything about you.

@buoyantair @umbr3lla

tools 👏 are 👏 not 👏 moral 👏 agents 👏

that said, gab's code is a literal dumpster fire, so i wouldn't use it anyway, but *who* made the tool has no bearing on the tool's utility.

@xj9 But if I am creating a tool, I am likely to create it according to my interests and needs therefore I inculcate my political believes in my tools right?

@buoyantair @xj9 Is a hammer made by a fascist any different than a hammer made by a regular person, a communist, a terrorist...?

In any case, the creators of Gab are just lame boomer republicans. So even if ideology could somehow reach into code and somehow enact itself through the code, what would be enacted is going to church on Sunday and calling Nancy Pelosi a secret traitor.

@p
Is that like B&H Photo Video not processing orders on the sabbath?
@buoyantair @xj9