Gab

Gab has made some serious improvements! It's the only alternative social media site that actually compares to what you're used to in quality and structure

Claims they are about free speech but will block you when they disagree with what you say. This site is full of people who just spew hate and horible ideals

OK, we'll start with the good. Pretty good about free speech. Me and my group of close pals can be pretty rough and none of us has ever been reprimanded. In my wider circle some have be banned, but again what we say on a daily basis would never fly on Facebook or Twitter.
If you're touchy about certain subjects or do not like your beliefs questioned, or love being in the echo chamber, you have the option to mute or block people, so they can never comment on your stuff and you will never see anything they write (a feature I think they put in to attract Alex Jones and ppl like that to the platform, since they do not like to be challenged.
Unfortunately, the platform itself has lots of trouble. Most days it takes several tries to connect, sometimes losing connection several times a day. Sometimes it'll be offline for whole days.
The way the conversations unfold are very confusing. Twitter is far superior on that score.
Also, in terms of the privacy issue: There was a shooting that involved a guy who was a Gab user (who also used Twitter and others), and Gab was happy to hand over everything to investigators without warrants or anything, many people who were in no way involved with the crime ended up being visited by the FBI.
So user beware.

Gab is filled with some of the most crude and primitive comments, many of which threaten death to Jews

Gab claims to be a Christian site that has free speech. It is nothing but a place where the KKK and Anti Semetic people spew their hatred. The owner, Mr. Torba claims to be Christian but spews the same rhetoric. I became so angry that I notified him, but I will not go back. SHAMEFUL!

GAB... claims to be free speech! What a CROCK! I made 3 anti-Muslim posts, which I got zero "thumbs down" for, but, I DID get several "thumbs up" AND positive comments about. GAB removed me COMPLETELY after the FIRST DAY! So much for the "FREE SPEECH" that they are claiming! They are just another PARLER or FARCEBOOK! Don't waste your time with them...

These clowns at Gab just kicked me out for promoting medicinal cannabis.
Shame on you, hypocritical scum trying to pass as a libertarian site.

Made an account to troll the Qultist and it started out fun made my account libtears4lube (follow meeee) hahaha these people had no idea i was trolling them and really thought the crazy $#*! i was saying was "compelling" which gives light to how $#*!ING STUPID the average users are that no one batted an eye to my bat$#*! comments. Anyways the trolling was fun but the website in itself is garbage... Links dont work, comments dont post, notifications wont show up... the site is a hot steamy $#*! but thats probably because no one wants to advertise on their platform and theyre broke... Biden 2020!

First of all I am a trump supporter
And an atheist
So went on gab
Opening an account was easy
However
I found the site is unusable
The only person posting is the ceo
Spouting religious crap all day and
talking about himself
No way to see what other users are saying
Only a few people show up in trending
(the same ones everyday)
Dissenter feed is trash

I closed my account because
Gab has NOTHING to offer
A complete waste of time

Also the claim of no nsfw content is a blatent lie

I've been on GAB now for awhile. Are there Racist comments? Absolutely! I've also been on Twitter Are their Racist comments there? ABSOLUTELY!

So what's the difference? The difference is this. Im a big boy, an adult, I live in the USA and I don't need Twitter or anyone else CENSORING WHAT I CAN SEE. Unlike Twitter who enforces what your Permited to SEE, SAY AND THINK ABOUT. Gab does not censor these comments, it's up to the user to censor them. ITS THE USERS CHOICE. It's what you feel, not some unknown person trying to force their world view upon you.
It's a lil thing called FREE SPEECH, A lil something our framers thought might be important. So important it's the First Amendment!
Just something for all you censorship advocates to think about.

Gab owners tout how they created a "free speech" platform free from big tech, yet it's only a for-profit, paywalled, fork/clone of Mastodon for right-wingers and fascists. They are duping people for profit, just like Trump. Ask yourself, why would you pay for something when it is already free? Anyone can install Mastodon just like Gab did, with little to no programming experience. This is why they currently can't scale, yet blame it on "sophisticated attacks" from "Big Tech". Fact is, Gab has not built anything. If people want freedom, the solution is not to rely on another centralized system that is easily scraped and CAN be shutdown.

While Gab claims they are free from "Big Tech," they currently use Cloudflare, a Silicon Valley DNS proxy and DDoS mitigation service. They have banned numerous similar sites to Gab and will most likely shutdown Gab in the near future. Those sophisticated attacks? Easily blocked or rate limited. Their real issue is most likely that they have no real data center with redundant fiber drops and Tier 1 bandwidth and simply begging for Bitcoin.

Their web browser? Just another clone/fork of another project others developed, better known as Brave. They are literally just rebranding popular open source technology developed by others and grifting the unintelligent.

Beware: Joined Gab & slowly was put into a shadow ban situation surrounded by Liberal shills/ trolls pretending to be "doubting" Trump supporters. Gab is a haven for Liberal shills & a trap echo chamber for Conservatives. Don't be fooled by this fake Free speech forum that is designed to act as an "option" to Twitter. Torba is a fake Conservative, a Neocon. He speaks frequently on the site, which is unusual for a CEO, & his comments are in line with the Liberal shills on Gab who's comments try to undermine real Trump supporters. Not to mention all the anti-Semitism being generated by these FAKE Trump supporters. Here's the Con, boot a Conservative from Twitter & hope they find their way to their prison camp, (echo chamber) which is GAB.

I recently joined Gab after being shadowbanned and then thrown in Twitter jail for 12 hours, and my first log in experience set the tone for this app and why I'm rating a 2. When checking out my new social media app I began with some commenting, nothing major just some simple facts. Immediately I was bombarded with a ton of very horrible comments from very far right extremists. I was called a commie and a kike loving slag for commending a black man who told his story about "walking away". I was then followed by these people and was unable to ban them from following me, I could only mute them. That was one feature I did not like at all. I don't want to be connected to people like that in any way! I sucked it up for about a month then I was having trouble with my account and something about invalid credentials so I reached out several times to the admins for help and never got a response. I quickly realized that even people with the same ideology as myself would attack and berate me if I dared to disagree with them... and these were so called conservatives! I left twitter due to censorship and now I've left Gab due to no monitoring at all. Gab is a host for far right extremists and porn. It's free speech but I feel it is just another platform for horrible people to bully, harass, and make threats against good, honest, intelligent people who are looking for like minded friends or for healthy debate. To each their own but I wouldn't recommend Gab unless you just want to fight and argue.

I deleted my Facebook account and joined Gab because they claimed they allowed freedom of speech. I am a conservative Trump supporter, my son is named after his black great grandfather. I am not racist, am non-violent, and am a strong Bill of Rights activist. I started a petition in Florida to get the right to RECALL Anti-Constitutional politicians in Florida like Never-Trumper Marco Rubio, who recently proposed a gun confiscation Bill to the Senate, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who kept Islamic spies as IT personnel, and Charlie Crist among others. I broke no laws and made no threats against anyone. I violated no policies of Gab yet it's founder Mark Zuckerberg, excuse me, Andrew Torba banned me. So much for freedom of speech. Just another hypocritical Zuckerberg wannabe that claims he supports Trump and the Bill of Rights, but in Reality only seeks power and profit. There is no integrity in Gab. I seriously doubt Torba is even Christian. He probably just uses that claim to cash in on religious people. He reserves the right to take your money and ban you at his own discretion. Donald Trump would be wise to avoid Gab. I feel Torba would only use him to gain followers and then Zuckerberg his account once he gets them.