Look at this post from the owner of Gab — nearly six figures just to keep it running, yet barely any users subscribe to Gab Pro. I remember reading their annual report: they had to take out a massive loan just to stay afloat. They even launched an investment group promising a stake in Gab and future profits, but it flopped — hardly anyone invested.
At one point, they disabled image uploads for non-paying users, but it backfired. Most users left, and they had to walk it back. Gab constantly complains about freeloaders draining their resources and I’ve said it before many times:
fiat-world users expect everything for free. Big Tech trained them that way.
Gab doesn’t have the bottomless fiat reserves of Facebook or X. You can’t outspend corporate tech.
Now enter Nostr — decentralized, far more powerful, and built so users can actually earn from their content.
In other words. Nostr is bad for gab.
Lots of credit to Gab’s founder for pushing hard to create a platform when X was banning people and Nostr didn’t yet exist. He gave people a place.
I used to like Gab at the beginning but it has since been declining in userbase and gotten quite boring.
While I was on Gab, I noticed a lot of users were anti-Bitcoin and I always felt Gab users have the fiat mentality that’s probably why very few are willing to go pro.
Let’s hope he finds a way to repay those loans — because honestly, Gab’s destiny is to die.
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