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

  • kia@lemmy.ca
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    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…

    • Paradachshund@lemmy.today
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      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
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        8 months ago

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

    • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

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

  • Fake4000@lemmy.world
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    8 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.

  • Alice@beehaw.org
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    8 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.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    8 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

    • hardy@lemmy.mlOP
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      8 months ago

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