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Gab left the fediverse quite a while ago now:

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.

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My main point is that Mastodon survived the ordeal.

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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