What is your opinion about it, and does it have more or less people compared to Lemmy?

  • kia@lemmy.caEnglish
    52·
    10 months ago

    tl;dr: The owner is alt-right and drove away pretty much everyone from the site, which is now a ghost town.

    It gained about 30k users relatively quickly. The owner then went full alt-right and declared it a “free speech platform” which caused it to lose about 99% of its users (most of which moved to Discuit). After that, it was basically just 10 or so users posting some pretty racist content.

    Recently, the owner put the site behind a waitlist to hide the fact that it basically has no active users…

    • Paradachshund@lemmy.today
      6·
      10 months ago

      I was there for a while after leaving reddit. It was one of the hardest self-destructs I’ve ever seen. That dev actually had something good and growing at the time.

      • can@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        10 months ago

        Could have definitely been a case study of how to completely destroy any momentum and good will.

    • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      Daily reminder that any platform that isn’t explicitly and openly anti-racist is a nazi bar.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    10 months ago

    During the original reddit exodus, I tried it out.

    It sucked. The interface was clunky, features bare bones at best, and it was prone to heavy lag.

    And then it got worse, and nobody with half a brain stayed.

    Seriously, it was good to have it there at the time, but it’s dead now in any realistic sense

  • Fake4000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    10 months ago

    Once I saw that it wasn’t open. Felt like going from one site that is controlled by a single person to another closed one controlled by a single person again.

  • can@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    10 months ago

    Oh man, it’s country restricted now?

    Squablr? It went through such an evolution during the API fiasco. The dev flip flopped so much, would delete their posts so you couldn’t reference back to previous statements. After getting a dedicated user base with some committed posters he decided to pivot to “free speech” out of the blue, I guess he didn’t like the overly friendly crowd he had found. I wonder if I have an account still.

    • hardy@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      i dont think so , i had tried to register a couple of months ago im gonna try again to register and let u know

  • Alice@beehaw.org
    2·
    10 months ago

    First I’ve heard of it, but my first thought is that I don’t want to socialize on a website named after petty arguments.

    • Otherbarry@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      I don’t think so? Unless something changed recently that site wasn’t even federated with anything, it was (is?) just it’s own standalone website. In the beginning the dev/owner couldn’t even decide how to display posts/conversations & changed the display format a few times.

      I remember for a while the dev/owner would use throwaway Reddit accounts to spam his website every time people were discussing Reddit alternatives, like “hey you should check out this one, it’s great!” sort of spam. The spam was enough to turn me off from creating an account there… and realistically it didn’t look like it was going to gain any real traction.

      This stuff about the owner going alt-right is news to me, it’s been off my radar so long I never bothered checking if it still existed.

    • hardy@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      10 months ago

      i dont know , maybe… ijust learned they actually renamed to Squabblr months ago…