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  Johnnynull 8 years ago

  Yeesh. Got my approval for Gab. The privacy policy confirms my suspicions.

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  Mukt 8 years ago

  My bad!
  "The suspension" was actually a "trading halt" for futures for S & P 500 Index. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/as-stock-futures-plunge-heres-what-it-takes-to-trigger-circuit-breakers-2016-11-09

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  Johnnynull 8 years ago

  @mukt There's something like 31 exchanges in the US. If it's not NYSE or NASDAQ, it doesn't matter much.

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  Joe 8 years ago

  That's very true. I wonder if it's been designed to try and fill a gap if Twitter ends up failing?

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  Johnnynull 8 years ago

  Some of the bigger names that joined Gab have a pretty big following. No surprises there.

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  Johnnynull 8 years ago

  Gab is almost designed from the ground up (it would seem) to be a marketing machine/selling user info. In addition to the paid "no ads" option, the thing's built to be a money maker.

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  Joe 8 years ago

  @mukt I agree. Privacy over arches everything. It just confuses me as I said how these other sites take off when they don't seem to be thinking about the the fundamental problems.

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  Mukt 8 years ago

  Focus on privacy is more important than focus on free speech.
  For a website, free speech depends upon privacy, not vice versa.

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  Mukt 8 years ago

  @Johnnynull, They had to close some American exchanges for crossing percentage reduction limits (5%). Indian exchanges lost more than 6% before regaining.
  
  When do you call a crash, a crash?

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  Mukt 8 years ago

  I wouldn't like an AI monitoring my posts. That's aids surveillance, not free speech or privacy. Gab, isn't for me.
  
  I have a feeling that there is a big budget behind gab: they are spending much on promotion and that is how they got so many users so soon. Still trying to figure out how #IndianGab became so big so quickly with so many popular Twitter account joining it for no apparent reason except that others are joining it.

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  Joe 8 years ago

  Agreed. The vision for Pjuu has technically been both from the start but I've focused more on privacy, I guess free speech is easier to sell to people than privacy as there doesn't need to be as much trust.

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  Johnnynull 8 years ago

  @Joe agreed re: signing up. Insofar as the privacy v free speech thing, I would council that you keep to your vision of Pjuu. The focus on one or the other swaps based upon whatever is in the public eye at the time (and of course varies from person to person).

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  Joe 8 years ago

  @johnnynull I think we made need to change the wording to include free speech as it appears to be more important than privacy. Also the whole beta, sign-up process is a marketing trick used by a lot of sites. I spoke to a marketing friend of mine when we first pushed Pjuu out and that was one of his suggestions as it gives the feeling of exclusivity. I don't think that is something you need when free-speech/privacy is what you are trying to get at.

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  Johnnynull 8 years ago

  Also, I should point out: "stock market crash"? Not here, nope.

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  Johnnynull 8 years ago

  @Joe 1,000% in agreement. I found the fact that Gab is touting that kind of filtering to be quite ironic.

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  Joe 8 years ago

  Yea I like the filter idea its great. There is nothing to stop us from removing that content based on text and image analysis but I guess that means what you are doing needs to be monitored. We do offer as much free speech as those sites. I think them monitoring all the content could easily lead to them battening down on free speech later down the line as it would be a simple tweak to that algorithm to silence posts.

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  Johnnynull 8 years ago

  @Joe except Pjuu has a focus on privacy.

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  Johnnynull 8 years ago

  Gab also has "AI" that's supposed to ultimately remove "threatening" or "terrorist" posts. I think underage porn as well as porn not flagged as NSFW. Think I'm getting that right.
  
  Actually adding filters would be awesome. Mobile clients for GS have filters for users and keywords. I find it invaluable.

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  Joe 8 years ago

  @mukt just got my invite to gab.ai and its pretty nice. I like the mute feature for your feed. Will definitely get round to adding something similar. Think it needs a decent spec though.... I just wish Pjuu had worked out like these other sites as we seem to be doing the exact same things.

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  Johnnynull 8 years ago

  @mukt Yeah, I didn't learn that Clinton got more of the popular vote when all was said and done until late yesterday.

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  Johnnynull 8 years ago

  @Joe https://is.gd/XB54KE (warning: is a chan)

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  Mukt 8 years ago

  @Johnnynull Americans do not count it that way. Neither do we Indians...
  
  Also, if you count it that way, than it is Hillary who won.

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  Mukt 8 years ago

  And, it is mostly like Twitter with a feature added or removed here and there. Only with more meaningful content thanks to larger character limit.

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  Mukt 8 years ago

  Today, that I have actually used it, it doesn't sound as useful except for one thing: Indians are getting on big way.
  
  
  Gab.ai has 300 character limit, voting decides the sequence on global timeline. It has one big self moderation idea that I'd like Pjuu to implement: users can mute words and trends the way twitter allows muting of users. Apart from that and legally actionable content, Gab claims to have no moderation at all.

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  Joe 8 years ago

  Okay doke! 😀

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