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:ihavenomouth: on Nostr: Gorf was conceived as an alternative to Gab, thus the name - "frog backwards". The ...

Gorf was conceived as an alternative to Gab, thus the name - "frog backwards". The boomer who made it was planning to build his own ecosystem, complete with a streaming service, a video hosting, a news website, and a payment processor. He probably learned about the fediverse when people joined it instead of his website (yet another dogshit twitter clone for boomers) during one of the 2021-2022 twitter ban waves and gab exoduses, so he launched gorf.pub, a pleroma instance that federated, but didn't like not being able to control the network, so he created a bunch of alt accounts on other instances to shill gorf.com. At the same time, he was posting memes promoting gorf on gorf, to an audience of himself alone. This meme wasn't the only one he made, but it was by far the funniest.