I don’t remember what caused the Voat’s origin, except it involved Reddit HQ. And then it went under in 2020.

What’s different about this time and with Lemmy to make it a feasible alternative to Reddit? Is it random chance?

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    1 year ago

    I can attest to this. I went to Voat briefly, shit was wild.

    As a site it had merit but unfortunately it ended up scooping up a good number of the forced exiles from Reddit and not nearly as many normal users. Content had a big skew.

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      The worst part about Voat is that every single rational discussion was derailed by people throwing around slurs everywhere.

      It’s like the site operated on an alternative to Godwin’s Law, but instead of comparisons to Nazis and Adolf Hitler, the probability of a discussion descending into a shit-slinging contest of racist or antisemitic slurs approaches 100% instead.