Has anyone tried Squabbles? i couldn't register [Edited]. (lemmy.ml)

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[-] kia@lemmy.ca 53 points 8 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...

[-] Hardy@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

i think this explains why I couldnt register at the time..

[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 6 points 8 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 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

From what I got the owner isn't alt-right but rather the naive kind of libertarian who thinks "free speech" won't turn his site into a nazi bar.. which severely backfired on him lol

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