https://ruqqus.com/+Ruqqus/post/dns3/end-of-an-era
They burned down pretty quickly after they bent the knee to the cabal and banned a bunch of guilds that went against the narrative.
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We probably shouldn't celebrate this. This is a victory for the wokists and the globalists.
Whether they manage to successfully co-opt a dissident forum and keep it viable, or simply destroy it instead, they have still achieved their goal: one less community that doesn't conform.
They banned free speech on Ruqqus a long time ago. They conformed then and now they are gone.
Yup. Gave them a shot, but they became reddit 2.0 fast. Only without the money to support their bad ideas.
Get woke go broke
why does this always happen?
Because it turns from a passion project or hobby into a source of income or "something my name is attached to."
Which means now they want to look respectable and protect their source of money, usually by sanitizing it for ads and journo back pats.
For most Google Adsense is the only viable way to passively generate enough income to run the site, and to use it you need to adhere to Google's content restriction requirements.
I think a lot of people even here don't understand how much of a stranglehold Google has over clearnet.
Pretty much every site and every content creator is heavily incentivized to censor their content, and punished for producing verboten content.
It's why there's such a massively artificial and samey feel to what makes it to the "top" content these days. The creators are glorified actors that don't even realize or care they're reading off a script.
My guess is they start smelling money.
Well I'm going to anyway.
Look at what u/Benevolentdictator posted (it's currently the top comment). It sounds like it either was or became Faggit 2.0 and is going the way Faggit needs to go. Unless they started out based and got infiltrated a communist shit hole collapsing under its own rot is a good thing. Even if it did get infiltrated it's still a victory for us, because it shows what happens when wokists drive off the original userbase without an endless supply of free money to shield them from the consequence of their shitty behavior. Faggit is next if the money dries up.
not celebrating, just reporting
I'm sad it came to this because the site had a nice interface