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Squabbles, another recent reddit alternative, seems to be taking the doomed "free speech" path
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this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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This seems to be the reason for the change (jayclees is the creator and admin of the site):
https://ibb.co/48hY8fm
honestly reading this, it just sounds to me like he isn't cut out for community management. It is stressful and hard sometimes, so I get it, but he's going to kill his own site doing this. I did wonder about this before - it seemed like to me he regularly made changes based on feedback on a whim, and these changes were often rushed without much thinking. Needs to know when to pass the baton elsewhere and stick to development, but alas...
The last comments also speak to someone who's probably hiding some contrarian views of his own.
Shame.
cOnSeRvaTiVe vOiCeS aRe bEiNg sILeNcED!!
i.e. boohoohoo, I'm facing consequences for my hate speech.
It's the engineers doing graphic design but worse: engineers speedrunning social sciences.