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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world

So I mean, most of us knew this beforehand and being on the fediverse we probably do not really care, but what was always on the horizon has no happened, the owner of Squabblr finally had enough having to be a decent person and has decided that his site is now "free speech purism", so he gets to continue to insult LGBTQ people like he always does.

Seems from the comments that some other admins disagreed with the decision (so there were some decent people on that site!) and either left or were removed.

Not entirely surprising the whole thing, granted.

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Also, apologies as this isn't truly reddit news but Squabblr was one of the sites frequently brought up in /r/redditalternatives so I figured this might still be relevant?

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[-] Xariphon@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago

I've legit never heard of Squabblr or this... Discuit? What even are these?

[-] Dudwithacake@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

Squabblr was called squabbles until a very recent rebrand. You may've known it under its old name instead.

[-] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

That was this stupid Reddit + Twitter mix, right? Never understood why some people were hyping that platform up so much.

[-] Dudwithacake@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

It's pretty alright. The dev is pretty fast, churned out a majority of the site between a month before reddit killed 3rd party apps and today. Decently responsive to requests and stuff too. But the site just didn't grow, and the head dev was never okay with giving up sole leadership.

[-] danielton@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Because they're confused by the idea that some communities might not be hosted on the server they are logged into. lol

[-] balderdash9@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It felt like early reddit while it lasted. Lots of positivity and you started to recognize the usernames. On reddit I was a lurker, but I posted quite a bit on Squabbles. I'm already nostalgic about it lol

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Every platform is nice when it's small and not trying to monetize. The main benefit to decentralization is that anyone can spin up a new small instance, and block any other they feel has gone bad.

[-] balderdash9@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Well its nice to be able to have access to the platform from different instance. But its still annoying to have to resign up if the admins piss you off. They need to develop a way to switch instances but keep your profile/history. I had to get off Beehive when they defederated from lemmy.ml and I'd rather keep everything with me.

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hot damn. I was reading the name and thought first its about squabbles, which I considered to be checking alongside lemmy how it develops.

So I was briefly shocked about this development, then I realised this says squabblr and not squabbles. And then I read your post.

Rollercoaster.

[-] Xariphon@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago
[-] danielton@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

On Reddit, just before most of us left, there were a ton of people going "omg lemmy and kbin are too confusing but I like squabbles!"

I signed up and checked in on it here and there, and then this happened. I am also on Discuit, but I've been spending most of my time on Lemmy.

I got a weird vibe from Squabbles/Squabblr and this basically confirmed it.

[-] Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Same. I signed up to Squabbles but any time I visited, which wasn't often, people seemed to be in the middle of a fight or dealing with the aftermath of trolls. They changed their name and URL and I stayed and at first it seemed fine, but the last time I checked the dev announced it was now suddenly a "free speech platform"; protections for LGBTQ+ people were removed from the TOS; and that all content created by users now belonged to the site to do with as it wished. So I deleted my comments (not many made so that was easy) and account and created one at Discuit. So I give Discuit a few months before that implodes, lol.

I am very grateful for kbin and Lemmy.

[-] danielton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I've posted a few memes and replied on Squabblr, but I've been way more active on Lemmy. I also have a Discuit account (I created it before Squabblr imploded out of curiosity), but I don't really have high hopes for that either.

If it wasn't for Calipso, I wouldn't have been into Squabblr at all. I think the site is ugly, and with all of the app devs bailing, Squabblr is done for.

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