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Squabbles has been a total shift in the way I spend time and engage on the Internet. I can scroll through endless posts if I want to, or I can slow down and engage in layered conversations with anyone on any topic. It’s the perfect multi-topic forum structure, with a lot of humanistic layers. What a great place to land in cyberspace!

When I first learned of the Reddit API fiasco, I scrambled to create accounts on several different sites. I tried the others first because Squabbles was lagging behind in community size, but the UI/UX stunk and it was difficult for me to find communities and follow discussions I was interested in. Enter Squabbles! The developer is committed to finding a nice balance between Reddit and Twitter through evenly championing self-posts and communities alike. He's worked almost non-stop--I cannot count the number of small, UI/UX-friendly changes that have been made simply because the community was clamoring for them! I've never seen so many self-proclaimed lurkers feel comfortable and confident in posting their first online forum posts, which warms my heart. Squabbles is about being friendly, open and inclusive: "The Nicest Place on the Internet"!

Great community so far, very active and involved developer. Feels as close to “the good old days” of the social web as anything I’ve tried.

It is great to have an alternative to reddit that embraces their community. The rapid change and number of improvements coming to the platform daily are astounding. I'm happily a Patreon backer, and will continue to be so.

Looks to be a viable alternative to Reddit. As a daily Redditor for over 9 years, Squabbles has the old Reddit feel with a more wholesome community. Lots of subs for niches already and an active dev making changes every day. Excited to see where it goes

I've been a member of Squabbles for a couple of weeks now and I love this place. It's got a much friendlier community than most sites, which is still small but steadily growing.

I love this app. The mobile apps are coming along nicely but it even looks good in just mobile browser. Desktop is still my preferred way to interact with it, but anything works. It really does feel like the things I love about twitter and reddit all in one! ( also a native dark mode is just so great <3 )

After being rather silent on the topic of hate speech for quite some time, and saying that he wants Squabblr to be a place for discussion to happen, Jake has now officially announced Squabblr is a "Free Speech Platform." This announcement, along with Discord screenshots leaking of him saying that "racism will be the only thing I disallow" and stating that he doesn't care to protect the LGBTQ+ community from hate speech, has led me to be completely done with the website. Had a good start, but Jake just doesn't have respect for the people that loved and helped grow his website.

Has potential. Only downside is the extreme censorship and far-left bias. They (the mods) have 0 tolerance for discussion and instantly remove anything if they interpret it negatively. I don't mind that as much as I don't use those boards nor have much political siding; it's just something I noticed in their Discord, since for some reason they're extremely clique-y and have open tickets where you can see when people report things that can be even SLIGHTLY offensive; eg someone reported a Horror board because it was 'mature content' and usernames that have swear words in them. It's still in its early stages so I'm keeping an eye on this as my Reddit alternative. Ability to block users would help significantly. Board/community moderation is questionable and needs some fine-tuning in how it works. Creator is very passionate for this and is working very hard and listening to user feedback which is a plus. Has plans for monetization in the future, but I'm unsure how well this will work if the site grows extremely large. Pros: Clean UI, dark mode, easy to use and navigate, looks good on PC/Desktop view Cons: political affiliation dictates moderation, mobile view is clunky, no titles on posts, no block feature, search feature could be expanded on, offsite community is too clique-y Overall, it is a decent social media application to be used alongside others, but not a suitable replacement.

Squabbles is home to a great community that has felt much larger than it is even when there were only a thousand of us. However, despite the size, it has always felt more tight-knit than most other online communities with a similar size that I've been a part of. It really feels like everyone there truly enjoys being there.