Most people on Lemmy have heard of Ruqqus - The open source, “Free Speech” Reddit alternative. Ruqqus was always right leaning, and there was a small brigade of leftists who withstood it all, preventing it from becoming a complete hive mind.
Over 2 years, Ruqqus struggled to find it’s place of original content, and while it was getting better, it was a painfully slow process. Until yesterday, when the admins decided to cut the game short:
I’ve supported Ruqqus in a lot of ways, but that’s the end of it from me. Ruqqus’ new goal is to become a bit more like Wordpress, where users can set up their own instances.
If that sounds like Lemmy, it is with some small differences:
- Ruqqus does not have federation
- Ruqqus has great UX
But for most users, this is the end. I’ll be stepping down as the mod of this community, since I have nothing more to add here.
All the best!
As someone who “tried out” Ruqqus for a hot minute, that place was a dumpster fire of racism, hatred and just all around toxic.
I would like Lemmy to have a good web UI like Reddit does
If you can host your own instance, wouldn’t that mean that you can upload whatever content you want? Right, left, libertarian, no-politic, etc…?
Though if it doesnt federate is better to stick with lemmy though is strongly left leaning but is gettin quite diverse in all ways