You judged the site from some of the public feeds, places where everybody posts. You can do that on Twitter by looking at trending topics, or moments, or by searching, but that’s not how most people use Twitter.

In order to have a good experience on a social media site, you need to tune your experience, by finding people who share your interests, and following them, and when trolls interject, muting them so you don’t see them any more.

Gab started as mostly Trump supporters, and they’re still a majority, but there are lots of different people there, and, in general, disagreements tend to be less rabid than on Twitter. But, short of actually illegal content, which Gab forbids, you’re on your own to keep out the riff raff. I like that. YMMV.

The other nice thing about Gab is that we are Gab’s customers. WE pay for the service. Yes, you can use it for free, but they won’t survive unless enough people pay for it, since they have no advertisements. On Twitter or Facebook, you are not the customer. The advertisers are the customers. You are the product.