You go and get Gabbed

Parler, which was supposed to be the respectable alternative to Twitter has been out of action for some time and seems to be in the grips of a civil war. Ownership has just fired CEO John Maze over mission orientation issues. Meanwhile Gab is croaking away:

Free speech social media platform Gab received 272 million visits during the month of January, outperforming legacy media competition such as NBC News, The Wall Street Journal, Breitbart, and TMZ by a wide margin. Gab’s success is particularly remarkable, considering the fact that the website has been “deplatformed” from mobile app stores, PayPal, and email marketing services.

On Vox Day's recommendation we joined Gab in 2016. Back then it took a couple of weeks to get cleared as it was literately just Eleanor at the home office going through accounts one at a time.  

Sure Gab is the wild west, the Mos Eisley Cantina, even Wolf's Lair. You can and will meet some freaks, weirdos, Nazis, white nationalists, people who tell you to die Jew die, which is merely German for the Jew the, as we all know. Gab's calmed down actually. And what if it hasn't? So what? Grow up, man boy and put your big boy pants on. Who said the internet had to be nice?

Gab has been thrown of it's platform, thrown off it's server, thrown off its payment processor and de-registrared only to come back stronger than ever. CEO Andrew Torba simply will not give in. Now he's got his own servers, email system and web browser. Vive le Gab! Follow us there. 

Here's an interview Torba did with Mark Dice:

Will's Good Idea for the Week of 1/10/21 and other Things

We have split The Great Nuclear War of 1975 in two. Part one is 60,000 words. We're entering the sweet spot, page count wise. Part II is 53,000 words. Which means there's work to do. Beefing up the Korean War chapter is an obvious start. Three volumes is officially greenlit. A 120,000 word novel is an unwieldly thing to write, edit, and even read. Besides, we'd be leaving money on the table. Reminder, volumes one and two will be released simultaneous or near-simultaneous like.

We approach the work week with high spirits. We'll be working on new articles for 1945 and Inforos. We must keep our GRU handler happy lest he release his komprmot. Wonder what the subject will be. Exit question: What would have happened if a mob tried to storm the Russian Duma?

Parler billed itself as the free-speech alternative to Twitter and then used Amazon Web Services. Dumb.  They're about to get de-platformed. This happened to Gab a bunch of times. Last we heard, Gab's Andrew Torba was building his own server platform. Smart. First slowly, then all at once.

Yesterday morning my friend Kathy Shaidle died. She was a blog pioneer and at one point the most important blogger in Canada. She was always kind enough to reply to my emails and overtime we became pretty good FB friends, for a lack of a better term. An alcoholic, She helped me with some of my issues, 'Kathy says anti-depressants work,' is a sentence I will take with me to the grave. I'm glad I told her that a month ago. Mark Steyn presents a fine obit here. When you read someone for 15 years you get to know them pretty well. Steyn shows the Kathy Shaidle I read and knew. Here's the obit Kathy wrote for herself. It's pure Kathy. Gratitude and love.