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tl;dr: The owner is alt-right and drove away pretty much everyone from the site, which is now a ghost town.
It gained about 30k users relatively quickly. The owner then went full alt-right and declared it a "free speech platform" which caused it to lose about 99% of its users (most of which moved to Discuit). After that, it was basically just 10 or so users posting some pretty racist content.
Recently, the owner put the site behind a waitlist to hide the fact that it basically has no active users...
I was there for a while after leaving reddit. It was one of the hardest self-destructs I've ever seen. That dev actually had something good and growing at the time.
Could have definitely been a case study of how to completely destroy any momentum and good will.
i think this explains why I couldnt register at the time..
Daily reminder that any platform that isn't explicitly and openly anti-racist is a nazi bar.
From what I got the owner isn't alt-right but rather the naive kind of libertarian who thinks "free speech" won't turn his site into a nazi bar.. which severely backfired on him lol