Nothing agains this place, but it is VERY cumbersome to get going. Squabbles seems super responsive and intuitive. I’ll be using both!
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.
Is it federated?
If not, it’s not useful.
100% I’m done investing my time in closed services controlled by capital
This!
I find the layout terrible
It doean’t even say who runs the site on the “about” page. The privacy policy also seems lacking. Not sure what to think of it yet.
That also doesn’t work at all without javascript, not even showing anything, is off-puttingI 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 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.
Yeah, I agree with it feeling “off” - can’t put my finger on exactly why. It feels like someone’s hobby project, as in one single person. The UI feels cluttered and not well thought out.
As other people have pointed out too, it gives me a weird vibe that there’s no information about who created it, who controls it, how it’s moderated. And the domain was registered on GoDaddy like three months ago… just feels really off to me.
I use it sometimes. Apart from the non-federated aspect, there is a cultish mentality in some users there, which I find very annoying.
I think it’s somewhat interesting. I don’t like how the main developer was spamming Reddit with links to it all week then pretending like he didn’t on Squabbles.
Also, the vibe of a social network named after petty and trivial quarrels seems to be not for me.
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Yeah that logo is a little questionable
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.
yeah nothing wrong with several communities. They all have their place. I’ve been checking out tildes.net. No invite and I don’t know anyone with them, but if its a place I end up spending a lot of my time on I’ll find one.
The community at tildes in my experience seems to be pretentiously over serious, like if you make the wrong comment that seems even somewhat off topic you will get permabanned.
