Its interesting to read, especially these points:

Lessons learned: Community is everything

Development priorities: Other options for federating content and integration across Ruqqus instance servers

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!

Is Ruqqus Good Yet?

^Looking^ ^at^ ^Ruqqus^ ^so^ ^you^ ^don't^ ^have^ ^to^

To see if Ruqqus is good yet, I've looked at only the quality posts in the past week. Let's see if it's good.

+Linux

• The old GMs got overthrown, the new one is more active, a developer, and quite the troll
• The community went to town with a discussion on how bad Firefox is (& why Brave is better)
• The community decided to harass one of the Ruqqus admins for using Windows

+Cryptocurrency

• I was actively talking about shorting Doge a few months back, and with the new ATH people were concerned
• Circlejerk on how Monero is bringing privacy to Zcash

+Privacy

• Community celebrated services blocking FLoC, discussion degraded into "Brave good", "voter ID racist"
• Ruqqies got upset at the idea the Australian government wants users to provide ID before accessing certain social medias

Leftist Guilds

• Pretty dead, but posts do get comments

General META

• Aevann, a GM, shitposter, but mostly a bot who reposts Reddit content, got temp banned (everyone liked that)
• Ruqqus showed their bigotry again by voting the most hated person on the site to be one of the only openly gay leftists

Ratings:

• Quality OC posts: 3/10
• Drama: 8/10
• Discussion: 5/10

Is it good yet?

No.