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?

  • Hubi@feddit.de
    0·
    1 year ago

    Voat was an unconditional “free speech” platform that wanted to be an alternative to reddit a few years ago. I think it took about a week until they had to ban the first communities on their site. The_Donald, QAnon and Gamergate was pretty big over there at first and it gradually turned into a neo Nazi platform. It was easily one of the worst sites around when it died.

    • TheInsane42@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      So it was essentialy to reddit what truth is to twitter. (Although Musk is working hard to make twitter a bigger cesspool)

      Ok, then it’s a good thing I never heard about it.