{"id":2766,"date":"2025-05-24T23:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T23:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2025-05-24T23:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T23:54:13","slug":"gab-com-will-not-win-the-social-media-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/?p=2766","title":{"rendered":"Gab.com will not win the social media war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Look at this post from the owner of Gab \u2014 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 \u2014 hardly anyone invested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019ve said it before many times:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fiat-world users expect everything for free. Big Tech trained them that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gab doesn\u2019t have the bottomless fiat reserves of Facebook or X. You can\u2019t outspend corporate tech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now enter Nostr \u2014 decentralized, far more powerful, and built so users can actually earn from their content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words. Nostr is bad for gab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots of credit to Gab\u2019s founder for pushing hard to create a platform when X was banning people and Nostr didn\u2019t yet exist. He gave people a place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used to like Gab at the beginning but it has since been declining in userbase and gotten quite boring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;s probably why very few are willing to go pro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s hope he finds a way to repay those loans \u2014 because honestly, Gab&#8217;s destiny is to die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/media.letsfo.com\/image\/the-future-gab.y6Y2\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.letsfo.com\/images\/2025\/05\/24\/the-future-gab.webp\" alt=\"the future gab\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\n\n<p>\n    Note ID:\n    <br>\n    <code id=\"nostrNote\" style=\"word-wrap: break-word; white-space: normal;\">note12jhg6ky3egdetfmcc2uf59pljap9mdevf5nwlk838aul25dwyekqvecn9c\n    <\/code>\n    <br>\n    <button onclick=\"copyToClipboard('nostrNote')\">Copy<\/button>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/btcpay.letsfo.com\/apps\/cyXxp1RKxQnN8bpQJjvwSEHjXbP\/pos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/images\/zapmar.png\"><\/a>Post#372\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at this post from the owner of Gab \u2014 nearly six figures just to keep it running, yet barely any users subscribe to Gab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/uploader\/images\/2025\/05\/24\/the-future-gab.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-2766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-media","tag-gab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2767,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions\/2767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}