content: The problem with Gab It is not free and open source software. Instead of being able to make a mirror site or alternatives in the event of complete failure, we have to sit back and watch Andrew Torba get his asshole pounded by technocratic elites. Proprietary software is doomed to fail particularly when it faces the monopoly of Twitter as a proprietary monopoly on the medium. Voat at least has open source licensing if too complex to replicate on a basic server stack.