So Gab has decided that their own code that they spent $5M of investor money developing is so unsalvageably bad that they're going to use Mastodon's code instead, with the added bonus of leeching off of our apps (with Gab apps being banned from app stores)
This is an early warning to fellow admins to be vigilant and domain-block them on sight, when/if they appear (unconfirmed whether they intend to federate), and to app devs to consider if blocking Gab's domains from their app is necessary.
@Gargron I think they left mastodon now
@nar Yeah they did
@Gargron Good. They seem to have made their own federation system, although I doubt anyone uses it.
@nar Did they now? Haven’t heard anything about that
@Gargron I visited their help centre and found this
https://help.gab.com/faq/what-is-gab
"you can either have an account on Gab.com, or, if you don't like what we're doing on Gab.com or simply want to manage your own experience, you can spin up your own Gab Social server that you control, that allows you to communicate with millions of users on their own federated servers from around the world, including users on Gab."
So, Gab users can interact with the rest of the fediverse, but not vice-versa.
