Are the administrators expecting a mass influx of new users from the late Ruqqus ?

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Ruqqus had been hemorrhaging users for months due to the admins constantly meddling with the front page, refusal to remove the unending bot spam, and their increasingly open disdain for the site’s members. By the time they mentioned shutting down the site there were only 20 or so active users

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I wonder why is so hard for many of those reddit alternatives to just let the site be defined organically by the nature of their user base. Sure, you might disagree politically with the nature or alignment of the user base, but why attempt at socially engineering them ?. If they wanted to do something like that they could just make the site private, require KYC and vet the user ( like say Ovarit does ), not be open to anyone and then complaining that the front page is dominated by subs you don't personally agree with. That makes no logical sense at all.

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If by socially engineering them you mean calling them kikes and faggots, accusing everyone on the site of shilling for jews, then yes, they were doing some engineering there. AOE attacked users to the point where they left. Nuff said.