I believe GAB was intended to be the alternative to Twitter, but it was purchased away to gain control of it for leftist uses.
Facebook is actually “LifeLog”, a domestic surveillance product designed by Deep State run DARPA (US government funded). With the financial backing of the government and years of development for collection of every little detail of AMerican lives, it was then propped up behind Zuckerberg and he was touted to have created it. For this reason it would seem like if Z could do it, so could others. But, it really took mass quantities of tax dollars, advanced expertise and years to develop “before” Zuckerburg ever pretended he started it so he and other students could talk to each other.
Below, two separate excerpts which show Pentagon's LIFELOG project "killed" the same day Facebook was "born."
Thanks for the info.