Torba: No Mass Search Function for "Journalists" to Exploit for Hit Pieces
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What does this mean for functionality? Does it limit based on the age -- for example if I want to "mass search for public statuses" about dinosaurs, or current events, can I still do that?
Totally speaking out of my ass here.
There is a search function on Gab.
However it looks like it is a universal search with very few filters.
It does not look like you can efficiently pick a particular individual and search deep into their timeline in a focused manner such as "before xx date".
If you wanted to seek out whether specific people dropped the "N" bomb several years back you could search the word "N" but you would have to manually scroll through thousands of users use of the term over many years chronologically to find it.
Trying to find decades old offensive posts by users will take big resources and time.
But... I think can be indexed, I believe that was an option in settings, by search engines. So I am guessing there could be a way with third party SE filters.
I'm not an expert either, but wouldn't any sufficiently large enough account be indexed automatically by the Wayback Machine?
In the case of something like a social media account IF way back works that way to automatically index it wouldn't occur until a particular account becomes prominent enough to warrant that kind of archiving.
People are being cancelled over things being said while not being of any wide reputation.
Think of these whistleblowers, George Zimmerman, Nick Sandman, Melissa Carone and others who are regular folk suddenly on the spotlight being ravaged by big media and psycho woke doxxers etc. Way back has no reason to have a history on them prior to a spotlight event.