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.
While Reddit always has someone celebrating / inciting everything from the benign to the macabre, this is just cope.
Kirk was in a process of sanctification by the right as a knight for debate and reason, as if he wasn't gleeful about Paul Pelosi almost being pulped to death with a hammer. People not dropping everything to make him MLK is not celebrating his murder. As for Brian Thompson, he was the modern equivalent of a British tax man in the Irish Famine, people being indifferent to his death is expected. If Mangione was more palatable in his politics to MAGA (instead of just being a RFK fan) and Thompson had photos with Pelosi or something, he would've been a perfect Trump pardon candidate.
Funny defense to use for a crowd that spent all their time regularly, hatefully dehumanizing people. The front page was routinely plastered with shit like "Why interracial children are an abomination," Hitler-did-nothing-wrong propaganda, usernames that echoed Nazi slogans and fantasized about mass-murdering non-white people, etc. It was an utter cesspool, and preserving and perpetuating that is a really weird use of dev time and effort.
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.
While Reddit always has someone celebrating / inciting everything from the benign to the macabre, this is just cope.
Kirk was in a process of sanctification by the right as a knight for debate and reason, as if he wasn't gleeful about Paul Pelosi almost being pulped to death with a hammer. People not dropping everything to make him MLK is not celebrating his murder. As for Brian Thompson, he was the modern equivalent of a British tax man in the Irish Famine, people being indifferent to his death is expected. If Mangione was more palatable in his politics to MAGA (instead of just being a RFK fan) and Thompson had photos with Pelosi or something, he would've been a perfect Trump pardon candidate.
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Funny defense to use for a crowd that spent all their time regularly, hatefully dehumanizing people. The front page was routinely plastered with shit like "Why interracial children are an abomination," Hitler-did-nothing-wrong propaganda, usernames that echoed Nazi slogans and fantasized about mass-murdering non-white people, etc. It was an utter cesspool, and preserving and perpetuating that is a really weird use of dev time and effort.
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