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I think Gab split from the Fediverse? I.e. it’s no longer federating with other instances.

I think it does federate, but most of the fediverse blocks it? Not sure honestly. I’m happy on Twitter

edit: yes from what I find it still federates, just all the big instances block it

edit2: oh old info. They stopped federating.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ie49qp/is_gab_sti...

> Gab no longer supports web finger. Web finger is a critical part of federation. If you type in any username@mastodondomain(ie Gargron@mastodon.social [mastodon.social's admin] ) in the search here you will get a result: https://webfinger.net/lookup/

> But a@gab.com (Gab's admin) returns nothing.

Webfinger is a mastodon thing, not necessarily a fediverse thing. ActivityPub services can use Client to Server interactions for user discoverability.

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