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Show HN: Squabblr – A Twitter/Reddit hybrid platform

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Hey guys, I made a post about this about a week ago and was told to create a Show HN post. So here we are!

Squabblr is a hybrid that takes Twitter style posting and combines it with Reddit style commenting. It came up from a personal want where I liked using Twitter to see what people I'm interested in are up to, but found that the reply system left a lot to be desired. It's very hard to have or follow conversations with their UI. While Reddit provided a great commenting system but didn't support following people very well (or had much usage of it at all).

So I decided to create Squabblr. You can "tweet" random blurbs or have in-depth conversations in a single unified platform. You can follow people, and you can also have Reddit style communities for whatever niche subject you find interest in.

If you find any interest in it, check it out here! https://squabblr.com

Tech stack:

- Laravel - Vue.js - MySQL - DigitalOcean

Appreciate your time!

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I'll let this post and the comments below speak for themselves

https://squabblr.co/u/jayclees/post/KB0LM3g1oy

https://web.archive.org/web/20230831212323/https://squabblr....

To add to this point, it's already had a mass migration away, to Discuit [0]. Some other discussion on Tildes [1].

[0]: https://discuit.net/Discuit/post/a8Suq9qc

[1]: https://tildes.net/~tech/197q/squabblr_is_now_a_free_speech_...

You don't need to archive it. I can post it here for easier reference?

> The terms of service have been updated. With the exception of racist content, the use of slurs (racial or otherwise), targeted harassment, and incitement of violence, Squabblr is now a free speech platform.

Props to you for taking a stand.

I was banned from every mainstream subreddit for criticizing the Covid vaxx. (I wasn’t spamming I just said my opinion when the topic came up)

The people who say free speech is alt-right have bought into the “dangerous speech” narrative of the media and 3-letter agencies. The powerful just don’t want criticism. So they push identity politics - as if your identity is the be all, end all of morality.

Whenever I criticized the vaccine I was called a right-wing nut. I’m not right-wing, I also believe the world is ending from climate change, support Medicare for all and wrote in Andrew Yang in 2020.

They’re just so brainwashed they can’t conceive that you can make arguments about important issues without looking through the frame of how the media set it up… with straw men to say those are the adjacent views of a fascist. So I think the vaxx is unsafe, I must be a fascist. It’s so absurd.

The only way they can maintain this upside down world is with censorship. So once again thanks for taking a stand for free speech. It’s the right thing to do.

> So I think the vaxx is unsafe

It is certainly unfair to label you facist or right wing when you're just simply categorically wrong.

One (of many) straight forward post pandemic demonstrations of this is in Australian epidemiology data.

An entire country of greater than 25 million people from a diverse global genetic background has been triple vaccinated with greater than 95% uptake and no significant unexplained mortality|morbity outcomes compared to pre COVID figures.

Australia has a national health sytem with comprehensive (privacy blinded) epidemilogcal data stretching back decades (as a math undergraduate I worked with Professor Fiona Stanley back in the early 1980s) and there's no secret cabal conspiracy hiding vaccine side effects.

What dangers there are (and all medical treatments have risk) are truly miniscule, particularly against the risks associated with not be vacinated.

lol Australia? Like you said they all vaccinated with few covid deaths… then they had a mass die-off.

https://kirschsubstack.com/p/how-are-they-ever-going-to-expl...

Why’d everyone die AFTER mass vaccination? Are you saying Australia didn’t have more excess deaths in 2021/2022 after widespread vaccination? Where’s your data?

Look at the charts in the article. Does that look like a safe vaccine? Even mainstream media says it’s unprecedented how many died there https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/exc...

Of course they never say it’s the vaccine but how else do you explain it?

Article by Steve Kirsch?

ooof https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kirsch

There was so much pressure to ban all kinds of speech and eventually I just decided to make it a free speech website. It wasn't intended to be, but it's something I believe in.

The fallout from announcing the website as free speech was big. I lost a lot of users and the attacks from the protest lasted for about a week. They posted all kinds of awful things to "prove a point."

This would be a lot more Twitter like if posts are sent to communities with tags. A huge failing of reddit is that cool posts need to be reposted.

On reddit, you can already post tweets for your followers to see by posting to your profile.

Doubling the comments saying to add activitypub functionality. As an aside, mastodon is a fediverse app, and not the name of the network. Other fediverse apps are Lemmy, a reddit clone, and the other Twitter clones, like pleroma - which is better designed than mastodon

Lemmy, pleroma, mastodon, et al can all talk together, it's cute :)

Hey guys just want to say the link is https://squabblr.co, not squabblr.com. I made the classic mistake on my own website!

Are we still doing the "r" thing for product names? If so, a proper twitter/reddit clone should have been named "shitpostr"

I gave it a quick lookie-loo. It looks tight and tidy! I can't promise to spend much time on there though; there is just an absurd number of social platforms out there, all competing for users.

I'm getting a self-signed SSL cert and then a generic Under Construction page. :/ Mostly just fyi: https://images2.imgbox.com/59/43/iBpTIRgT_o.png

It's https://squabblr.co (no m)

The HN link has it correct but the body has it wrong

Why does squabbles.io now redirect to squabbler.co? Are you the same person who made both? Were discussions from squabbles copied over to squabbler or did people have to start anew?

Same person, we rebranded.

I really like the post / comments format. Never seen hat before. Wish it was open source so I could see how it was done in Vue.

The two column layout is kind of a pain to maintain and keep responsive. I tried going single column but I honestly just really like the format so I brought it back.

did you think about making it https://joinmastodon.org/ mastodon or bluesky or nostr compatible?

I haven't thought about it. I don't know much about them but I'm open to the idea of decentralization. I'll take a look at them. Thanks for the heads up!

Oh also https://lemmy.ml/ a lot of info at https://fedidb.org/

+1. Federation would be a cool feature to add.

the link should be .co not .com

Funny that I make this mistake on my own website lol.

It looks great! I joined.

Awesome! Hope you enjoy!

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