I've been there since around when FPH was banned from Reddit. It was fascinating to watch the overwhelmingly polite interactions slowly devolve. I mostly lurk now, but rarely engage in any discussion as name calling is viewed as some form of valid debate tactic if they just label it 'trying to keep the normies out'. OK.
I like the theory of Mastodon instances, but I much prefer the easy thread reading.
Exactly this, to be explicit its fairly likely voat was brigaded by competitors, we don't need to go overboard on censorship but we are going to need some good mod support here to avoid that.
Venturing out to those places when it looked like we would be shut down was discouraging. This has always been a great group of people and I am very grateful to the individuals who set this up. It's magnificent.
I signed up to Voat many months ago, when T_D first got quarantined.
I lasted 90 minutes reading and even commenting a bit, before deleting my account.
Absolute degenerate low IQ losers on Voat .. with zero societal value. Worse than r/politics.
I've been there since around when FPH was banned from Reddit. It was fascinating to watch the overwhelmingly polite interactions slowly devolve. I mostly lurk now, but rarely engage in any discussion as name calling is viewed as some form of valid debate tactic if they just label it 'trying to keep the normies out'. OK.
I like the theory of Mastodon instances, but I much prefer the easy thread reading.
Exactly this, to be explicit its fairly likely voat was brigaded by competitors, we don't need to go overboard on censorship but we are going to need some good mod support here to avoid that.
Venturing out to those places when it looked like we would be shut down was discouraging. This has always been a great group of people and I am very grateful to the individuals who set this up. It's magnificent.