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So I’ve had a few days to mess around with Gab.ai, and so far I enjoy the service. Currently, it replicates most of the important functions of twitter without the censorship and the obnoxiously dumb trolling that goes for dialog on that other platform. There are no bot accounts at the moment, so for right now, there is no real spamming going on either.

Here is what the screen looks like when you get into the account initially (Home Screen):

So this includes the trending topics (hashtags “#”) on the left side of the screen. It is currently unfiltered but it is very functional. Since the service is so new, I have found the best way to find people is to search the hashtags for interesting topics.

On the right side is a list of the most recent gabs from those you have followed, just like twitter. At the top of this list is where you can create your own post. Unlike Twitter, you can use up to 300 characters, more than doubling the limit currently set by Twitter. This allows for the topics and conversations to be more fleshed out and less phone, L33T, and other forms of shorthand.

A bonus, most of the people on the service currently are alt-right, conservatives, christians, free speech friendly atheists (non psycho kind), right/libertarians and all seem to have an intolerance of muslims and most trending topics are conservative friendly.

This is truly morphing into the free speech version of Twitter.

If you click on your profile icon, this will bring you to your own feed, where you can see all your posts/gabs. As you can see, images will be displayed, I have currently seen all images like gifs, jpgs, etc completely functional.

You can also access your settings screen from here. In that screen you can change your email, your screen name, and even your @ name. The background behind my profile photo can also be changed as well.

This next screen is the Popular tab, where the popular gabs are shown with the most upvotes for the day. Popular users are also shown on the right column. Yes, as you can see, many twitter people who’ve run afoul of twitter are now here.

My next photo is my personal favorite, you can mute trollish people and even hashtags/words that you don’t want to see. They call it the “Self Censorship Settings”

I laughed out loud reading that.

So for the people trying to get in, make sure you use a public email service like gmail or yahoo. A bunch of other services are rejecting the invites to the beta. After talking to the @getongab people (who are very helpful, by the way) I learned that the site and myself were sent invites and they were never received.

For those who are wondering what my recommendation is at the moment…

Get on it. Gab.ai is a 10/10

You have the best opportunity to break up the liberal monopoly that Twitter and Facebook have on the social media landscape.

I will be petitioning Disqus in the near future to have Gab.ai “gabs” to be able to be embedded in the comments.