Nothing agains this place, but it is VERY cumbersome to get going. Squabbles seems super responsive and intuitive. I’ll be using both!
Seems pointless to switch to a different closed-source, centralized platform. Why would this be any different from Digg or Reddit? Switching to a federated system is the only way to make sure that cycle doesn’t repeat.
Fool me once. Shame on Digg. Fool me twice. Shame on Reddit.
Is it federated?
If not, it’s not useful.
100% I’m done investing my time in closed services controlled by capital
This!
I tried it and surprisingly liked the twitter and reddit fusion, and people there for now are pretty friendly. It seems like that could appeal to the individuals who find lemmy to be too daunting to use for them.
Not everyone will move away from reddit, so I do like the idea of different alternatives popping up that could push people to make the jump to distance themselves from reddit.
I liked it briefly when I logged in but as someone on reddit pointed out, the owner encouraged others to astroturf bringing new users to the site which feels kinda icky given the way other users have also bashed lemmy alongside it.
That sounds exactly like my experience with MeWe. I investigated them as part of the team of Goodreads refugees who were looking for a new home after the Amazon takeover. MeWe functioned as a cult, and they were (are) a walled garden. Numbers were constantly urged to recruit, recruit, recruit.
But when search engines can’t see your community or your posts, and you can’t even share links except to members, there’s no future. Nothing you write will ever go viral. Nobody will ever stumble upon something great that you rode and decide to get involved or to follow you.
Had a quick look at their TOS:
Prohibited Content:
a. Pornographic Material: The posting or sharing of explicit sexual content, including nudity, sexual acts, or any form of pornography, is strictly prohibited on Squabbles.io. This includes both visual and textual content.
This will never be an adequate replacement for reddit.
I just checked it out because of this post, and I’m not really sold. It just seems… off? to me. Like the whole comments right next to the post thing and what not just made it more of a distraction than anything. I mean, it could be my adhd preventing me from focusing, but I just could feel myself becoming overwhelmed within the 5-10 minutes I was looking through it. I feel that lemmy/kbin is definitely more Reddit-like, and personally, less overwhelming. Good concept, maybe not-so-good execution for some people.
I find the layout terrible
I’ve tried it and while it’s pretty neat, it strikes me as more like Twitter than Reddit.
