cowleggies

the sacred texts

nice

Look at those eyes!

Yeah the icon is goofy but I can overlook it for the time being - I’d rather them focus on features and functionality and bring the fun stuff later (which seems to be how they’re approaching this)

Memmy is developing at a crazy fast rate - it’s leapfrogged Mlem in features and stability already imho.

too little, too late.

Sims 3?!?

You’re way too aggressive about this. You can join any other instance and access the same content, or start your own. Nobody is “silencing” you.

If you want absolute control over what instances you’re federated with, start your own instance. Otherwise, find one that’s more closely aligned to your views.

As others have said, this is one of the main points of federated networks, if you don’t like how an instance is run, you can take your ball and go play somewhere else.

But if they behaved like this, other instances would just block them from federation ("seeing out" to other instances) and they'd be isolated in their own little silo. That's the beauty of federated networks - bad actors will be naturally pushed out and isolated.

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.

The horizontal blocks UI with post content on the left, and discussion on the right, frankly sucks. Weird font choices across the interface as well.

Scaling costs will be untenable if Squabbles ever starts to gain serious user traction, and then they're in the same predicament as Reddit - you have to monetize somehow in order to pay for the infrastructure. That's either ads, paid subscriptions, or selling your user data.

I don't see how this is any better than Reddit.