It sold itself as a healthier alternative to Reddit, but by the end of its run virtually every post sitewide was some flavor of virulently racist, misogynistic, anti-semitic, fringe conspiratorial, etc.
As far my recollection goes Voat was actually pretty nice content wise until /r/fatpeoplehate got banned. After that it became the dumping ground for every shithole community that was too awful for Reddit, quite an achievement TBH. It was inevitable with 20/20 hindsight, but I would've loved if it had had more breathing room to actually develop as healthier alternative.
Even if it failed the same way it could've influenced the redesign to implement RES-style QoL changes instead of the clusterfuck that New Reddit still is.
thank you for your comment, I will support any platform that has complete dataset available. I will take submissions for any complete datasets through github issues. https://github.com/19-84/redd-archiver/blob/main/.github/ISS...
There are certainly things to be learned from analysis of the dataset. Keep your friends close but your enemies as JSON, or something...
Might be good for researchers to be able to perform studies on.
It seems you have no understanding of the term neo-fascism, and yes, it's not what your propaganda talks about.
Can you explain for the class? Don't just say that and leave us wondering.
Of course, if you pay me for that job
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Wat?
It sold itself as a healthier alternative to Reddit, but by the end of its run virtually every post sitewide was some flavor of virulently racist, misogynistic, anti-semitic, fringe conspiratorial, etc.
I have grown very tired of the astroturfing / bot campaigns on reddit. It is really sad.
As far my recollection goes Voat was actually pretty nice content wise until /r/fatpeoplehate got banned. After that it became the dumping ground for every shithole community that was too awful for Reddit, quite an achievement TBH. It was inevitable with 20/20 hindsight, but I would've loved if it had had more breathing room to actually develop as healthier alternative.
Even if it failed the same way it could've influenced the redesign to implement RES-style QoL changes instead of the clusterfuck that New Reddit still is.
Sounds an awful lot like reddit. The cesspool whose users universally celebrate murders committed by far-left terrorists.
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