I too joined Gab in that time frame and found the same. It was akin to some of those forums on 4chan & 8chan. Delusional, very sick & twisted, brain rot and some outright dangerous. Make an insane asylum look like kindergarten. I didn't stay around long.
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell