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What a cesspool. There's so much racism, just in this post's comments... Good riddance!
Yeah, I was scrolling through some of the comments and saw things like "kikeflix" as an insulting variation of netflix, references to "hitler was right", etc. First and last time I ever actually went to Voat. I'm not sure anything of value is being lost.
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>I don't see this. There is right-wing content hitting front-page reddit constantly front page as in "/r/all", or your front page? At least on /r/all there isn't much "right wing content", aside from some posts from /r/greentext and /r/PoliticalCompassMemes.
I don't have an account. Your claims of a left-wing bias on reddit are also anecdotal.
Feel free to provide evidence to the contrary. As of right now all the posts on /r/all not right leaning.
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I think part of the issue is that the average age of Reddit users plummeted. It was in the high 20s, but I've seen some research that puts it in the high teens these days / early 20s. That has a huge impact on the quality of conversations.
And politics have infected every single discussion. Nowadays it's cool to be partisans, decades ago a teenager talking about politics would be dismissed with a "get a hobby, nerd." It is an absolute disgrace how it's become normal. Or that mine is an unpopular opinion nowadays.
Reddit absolutely doesn't care, they'd rather bombard you with ads and tracking garbage and pretend they're a viable platform through half-assed initiatives.
I guess the refugees will head off to parler or thedonald.win, though I wonder if voat's level of racism is too much even for those sites.
Voat was founded as a neutral free-speech platform. After alt-right extremists were booted off reddit, they found a new home there. The site was bombarded by /pol/ chan culture, and after that nobody else of other political persuasions really wanted to join. Kind of like that "paradox of intolerance" meme. Free speech platforms usually end up becoming extremist platforms. I remember going on voat a couple years ago a…
> Free speech platforms usually end up being extremist platforms. ...when the popular platforms stop being free speech platforms. Reddit, in its earlier days, was never dominated by the Voat contingent. They were there, but they were far less extreme there than they were on Voat. And then whenever they would post rank inaccuracies, there were clearer-minded people to point out why they were wrong, in the same place w…
It's basically a tradeoff between visibility to the public and density of toxic content.
Voat has been the bastion of free speech for me for many years. It should come as a great compliment and testament to their efforts that many Australian ISPs took the unprecedented action of blocking access to Voat some time ago - a line in the sand was crossed that day, and it made me ever more aware of the need for free speech platforms, my appreciation of Voat, and the hostility of power to curiosity.
Any platform that does not aggressively censor disallowed facts and opinions will tend right. Voat was a home for us who refused to switch off and participate in the degrading, mind-numbing, false and deceptive consensus of modern progressive propaganda that proliferates on all mainstream services - all heavily censored.
Time for a new home.
How much was he/she paying a month to keep it up? Why not ask for donations/people to subscribe? I mean, I don't personally use and I don't know anybody who does but...
I heard a story once about a "1000 year civ2 game save" where the OP thought it was unwinnable but civ2 veterans got a copy of the game save then had no trouble winning. Would love another story like that.
Voat has been the bastion of free speech for me for many years. It should come as a great compliment and testament to their efforts that many Australian ISPs took the unprecedented action of blocking access to Voat some time ago - a line in the sand was crossed that day, and it made me ever more aware of the need for free speech platforms, my appreciation of Voat, and the hostility of power to curiosity.
Any platform that does not aggressively censor disallowed facts and opinions will tend right. Voat was a home for us who refused to switch off and participate in the degrading, mind-numbing, false and deceptive consensus of modern progressive propaganda that proliferates on all mainstream services - all heavily censored.
Time for a new home.
