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		rewq4321 on Jan 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PeerTube v3 Gab left the fediverse quite a while ago now: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ie49qp/is_gab_sti... https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ie49qp/is_gab_sti... I don't think they ever really cared about decentralisation/federation. Seems they just wanted a nice codebase to work from.

BlueTemplar on Jan 10, 2021 [–]

My main point is that Mastodon survived the ordeal.

mkr-hn on Jan 10, 2021 | [–]

It wasn't hard when all the big apps and most of the big instances blocked it between the announcement and launch. The instances that didn't block it mostly looked like Gab anyway.

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