> Gab is now running on Mastodon, whose founders profess values fundamentally opposed to Gab.
Just because Gab and other Mastodon servers run the same technology, means little without federation between them. Signal and Whatsapp share key technology, but they are worlds apart regardless because they will never federate with one another.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I can federate with both Gab and "official" Mastodon if I want to, while there's no way to do that between Signal and WhatsApp (at least without third party hacks) ?
That's from the point of view of a server, a user, or both? (I guess a user can always have several accounts while still using the same client... for those clients that have not blacklisted Gab outright?)
Just because Gab and other Mastodon servers run the same technology, means little without federation between them. Signal and Whatsapp share key technology, but they are worlds apart regardless because they will never federate with one another.