GAB disabling media uploads for free tier from next month. Already a small exodus to fedi. Will be interesting to see if this starts a death cycle.
GAB disabling media uploads for free tier from next month. Already a small exodus to fedi. Will be interesting to see if this starts a death cycle.
It’s an understandable problem.
It sort of shows the natural quagmire that any platform finds itself in if it violates the sort of policies that will get them banned from the Google store and have their access to regular financial transactions pulled.
I’m sad for them.
It’s not a good sign at all. I think they will go under. I do not celebrate that.
possibly, because I saw a few of them posting that this cracks down on “freeloaders”… however, “free” posters often “freely” contribute time generating content that the platform “freeloads” off of; in other words, it goes both ways and this penalizes volunteers similar to the Reddit API debacle over the summer last year.
If they’re smart and this doesn’t work out, they should pivot to one of the many approaches people are suggesting as an alternative way to handle this situation.
Right, like I would suggest limiting the quality of images that can be shared and only allowing image posts like twice a week… and perhaps flagging certain accounts with certain levels of engagement as meriting higher quality uploads and such.
What happened ?