touch foxglove NOW One thing that I think a lot of newfriends are probably confused about is where this site even came from. Now, I would write about this, but honestly I don't really know much about this topic, because I didn't use a lot of reddit 
and also didn't follow the dramneurodivergents to ruqqus. Carp has talked about the ruqqus experience before but only in shallow detail, so I know the general gist of what happened, but not the full picture. Basically:
The censorship and death of /r/drama
The move to ruqqus, and the war with the ruqqoids
The move to rdrama
. Look at the writeup request to see what we're missing or simply make a post about anything important that happened.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
So here's what I remember
-Deuxrama and similar subs started to get banned. These were kind of containment subs for our more MDE type users. Ruqqus then became the next plan of action but posting about moving to ruqqus on reddit is a no no so that didn't help our case. Also most did not want to move offsite at this point, especially with whatever the frick that was going on there at the time
-LoveforX subs began popping up all over the place after the success of LLMs early ones. Problem is these were made by idiots with either new accounts with
Terminator1488 as the username or accounts that could be easily be linked back to /r/drama
-Large "non woke" subs that acted as a kind of shield began to fall. That and /r/AgainstHateCommunities directly antagonizing AHS and Bardfinn gave us more attention from the terminally online
-The mods historically were friendly with a few of the less insane admins, which is why the sub even survived the pinging fiasco years ago along with other things that most subs couldn't get away with. But that seemed to have waned. Probably has to do with the above, along with other things like the /r/teenagers outing, that /r/drama became pretty much indefensible at this point
-Reddit begins cracking down hard on "punching down", but mostly just the unspoken rule of don't criticize the transgenders. Certain words being unmoderated for more than 1 microsecond also became ammo for AHS types to get a sub banned. This is where the r-/n-/f-slur and eventually train/basketball/cutetwink stuff came from: to show how ridiculous these rules were. Eventually it got to the point where you really couldn't win and the mods that were left went emoji only
Luckily Aevann and Carp, although dirty ruqqucels, made this site a couple months before the subreddit effectively died. Some of us saw the link before they blacklisted the url from reddit and cared enough to give it a try, but many didn't make it over or post extremely infrequently. It's kind of a different community at this point, but I think it's one of the only successful transitions from reddit to offsite without dying or going full extreme, which is quite the accomplishment and hopefully is just the beginning of reddit itself dying
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Good job bobby, here's a star
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context