Thank you for your reply, that tries to address my concerns.
@torjunkie
at the time I shared my concerns, Whonix chosen to promote 5 social networks through their footer.
fb, twitter, telegram, matrix and gab.
fb, twitter and telegram are mainstream. Matrix is very popular in the free software community with the potential to reach mainstream.
Gab is the only network that does not fit the criteria I just mention. There are many networks that don’t fit the mentioned criteria. If you would just choose kind of any, as you suggest, that should have been visible. But it isn’t. There was only Gab, a network from the alt-right to radicalize people for their racist agenda.
You present me a logical reasoning, that does not fit the reality as it was when I raised my question. The footer in question changed afterwards. My question addressed a situation of the present and the past at the time asking, not the future. Now whonix promotes several other social networks, but that is not an explanation why whonix was long time promoting Gab as the only network that is not mainstream or widely used in the free software community.
(for those not knowing how the page looked before, take a look at “web archive”)
web.archive.org/web/20200514204409/https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Documentation
Beside that I like to address:
Non-Reasons for account creation:
Endorsing that network.
Let’s assume it as true for a moment. Why is it then that Gab, as the only network that is not mainstream or not wildly used in the free software community, is promoted all over the Whonix webpage at the time I raised this concern?
Claiming to not endorse something, but to promote it then on every page of the Whonix website creates at least some logical conflict to me, that I hope to be explained.
The reasons you presented for the creation of a presence at Gab does not require to do such a heavy promotion yet Whonix does so and I have seen no explanation to it.