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Re:Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter? by gydfi on Monday February 13, 2017 @05:22PM (#13639346)
gab.ai is the only one I know about, its major selling point being that it's uncensored.
Re:Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter? by tomashertus on Monday February 13, 2017 @05:24PM (#13639369)
yeah I've heard about it, but there are not yet fully operated. Anyway I'm like on like 110k spot in the queue, so it will take some time till I get there.

Additionally, when they are saying that they are not censored, can I censor it to my preferences? For example, one of the biggest problems on Twitter is lack of "negative keywords" filter. I like to follow people, but I can't control what they tweet about and I don't really care about some topics such as grammy, fashion etc. I would love to avoid these keywords, not the entire person.

Re:Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter? by lj3 on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @09:35PM (#13649260)
> Additionally, when they are saying that they are not censored, can I censor it to my preferences?

Yes. There is no such thing as blocking, but you can mute users, words, phrases, tags, etc. I don't think you can set up user-specific negative keyword filters, though. If you want to filter the grammies, for example, it takes effect site-wide.

There are a lot of missing features because Gab is still young, but it has promise. I'm a little surprised they haven't opened it up to the public yet. I think they wanted to complete the mobile apps first. Apple's giving them a hard time.

Re:Ask HN: What would be ideal replacement for Twitter? by tomashertus on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @01:26PM (#13654138)
That sounds really interesting. Is there a way how to help them maybe? I would be interested to know more about the app