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?
I used the site for a bit. It had some serious potential as a reddit alternative, and was poised perfectly to reap the benefits of a mass exodus. Of course, I used it when it was called Squabbles less than a week ago, before the cringy name change to drop a vowel to be more like the websites from the early 2010’s. I think the biggest hurdle for them was that they were a .io domain and couldn’t host pornographic material, so the porn subreddits couldn’t use the platform even if they wanted to. I think they recently switched to .co, so that might change, who knows.
I’m not sure I agree with the owner’s top-down approach to website design and management. I had no idea about his anti-LGBTQ opinions until now, but that’s one more reason to not to continue using it, aside from the fact that growth is basically reversing and very little OC is being posted.
When I hear “free speech purism”, I immediately think that either the person/people who want that don’t know the dark forces they are inviting, or worse, they do know and they want it to happen. Neither of those are a good look. Some speech absolutely should be banned from these websites for obvious reasons. People who conflate freedom of speech for consequence-free speech are idiots who deserve to be banned from everything everywhere.