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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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[–] Auk@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Moves towards Voat were primarily sparked by the banning of various conspiracy and negatively oriented subreddits (e.g. fatpeoplehate). This association meant people assumed the Voat community was all made up of people from such communities, which in turn meant the site only really appealed to a small subset of the Reddit userbase.

This time around Reddit has annoyed a broader section of the userbase and the move is not associated strongly with any particular group or ideology so I think alternative sites now have a better chance of building a community that will attract others in the long term.

[–] Ewoodtmg@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I think Lemmy will be more successful because I hadn't heard of Voat before I got on Lemmy.

[–] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

God. All I can think about is how this feels like a Voat situation. I really really hope not, but I have a bad feeling. I haven't seen a ton of activity since I came in, but maybe I need to look harder.

At least I found mastodon. I feel like that could blow up.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

You can find constant activity by searching New>All>Comments.

Nonstop stream of stuff.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most definitely!

I was one of the first users on voat and one of the first banned users on voat. It had horrible admins who were way out of their depth and a posting system that could be exploited. If your account reaches a certain amount of downvotes, it is automatically locked, meaning that bands of users travel from profile-to-profile, destroying any other profiles they dislike.

also, the lack of diversity killed Voat, having nothing but Neo-Nazi and extremist content. This is still a problem that Lemmy faces, where instead of dealing with disagreeable speech, it's easier to defederate whole instances.

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