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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    I honestly prefer fediverse remain as that complex open source alt, because it’s one of the few filters we have for users here.

    I honestly don’t believe rapid growth is healthy for any platform, and we’ve even seen it here with how comments and memes are getting increasingly vitriolic and offensive. Fuck, antivax memes are starting to appear on lemmy.ml’s meme community.

    I’m starting to think Beehaw had the right idea with vetting users, because there people here who think Lemmy should be another 4chan.

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      Why do a group of pricks feel they’ve gotta transform everything they touch into 4chan? 4chan itself is still going, stay the hell there!

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        ok but then theh might lose their cool kids club and we wouldn’t want to not feel special and smart for… making an account on a website