Posted on 11/30/2016 10:52:46 AM PST by cvolkay
You on Twitter?
I’ll give it a try on Twitter.
check your Freep mail. :)
Instead, we can say we're just "gab'ing" with friends. :-)
I’ve been on gab.ai for a few months now. It has some growing to do but it is very encouraging. Lots of conservative thinkers on it.
“Where is the .ai domain?”
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It can be anywhere - i.e. you can be in West Buzzard Creek, Wyoming ,and buy a name with the .ai extension. If you have a domain name that is already taken in the .com - .net - .org world you can buy another lesser known extension. (I would guess that”Gab” is already taken, hence the use of .ai).
But if the extension did were restricted to a geographic location, this would be in Anguilla.
To find out who owns a domain you need to do a “who is” check. You can search sites such as this one for gab.ai:
https://www.whois.net
Got on once Twitter went all Stalin.
It was not a long wait-not sure but after twitter started banning certain posters before the election, gab seemed to work overtime clearing those on the waiting list. (Not fact, just my impression).
I only lurk. Sites such as gab & twitter confuse me. I like a conversation to have a beginning with a progression to an end, like the threads here.
NOT a criticism of gab-it’s just the way my brain works. Sooner or later I will get a handle on it & stick my toe in the water.
Anyway, It is a good site with promises of no censorship. I do follow a few gabbers [?] that were purged from twitter.
No censorship means no censorship which means there will be posts I find objectionable/offensive/repugnant. That's okay. I'm a big girl, I can handle words, even the “baby kitty” word. Doesn't bother me, but it does bother others so “baby kitty” it is. :-). (Not sure, but I think there is a way to filter what you see
“Sites such as gab & twitter confuse me. I like a conversation to have a beginning with a progression to an end, like the threads here.”
Think of it as more of a grapevine. The hashtags, #MAGA, are used to sort of categorize things. You CAN have a conversation but it’s one on one and limited to 300 characters which is better than the twit’s 140 characters.
Kind of a cross between drudge and FR. Mostly used as a P2P news aggregator but with the ability to converse. Also, you can pick and choose which people to follow, like twitter.
Btw, there is a Buzzard Creek in Wyoming.
I suppose there’s a few Buzzard Creeks across this big land of ours!
Thank you. Your response pulled it all together. A lightbulb moment for a very simple concept.
LOL! I am almost embarrased, it is so simple. Until now Twitter was like gazing into my own hyperactive brain. Now I see order instead of disjointed chaos. :-)
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