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?

  • @OutrageousUmpire
    22•1 year ago

    I would think so. The people who were attracted to Voat could always migrate to Lemmy and host on their own instance (I’d be in favor of blocking them if their rhetoric becomes hateful, however).

    • @zeppo
      13•1 year ago

      I glanced at the mod log today and someone who has been prominently and insistently posting hateful content had just been banned 2 minutes before. So, lemmy.world isn’t tolerating insulting nonsense themselves. As far as other servers, admins can choose to federate or not.

    • pannacotta__
      13•1 year ago

      At least then we can just defederate with their instance, yeah?

    • @lwuy9v5
      12•1 year ago

      Pao’s stint as CEO (under the orders of Spez and Ohanian), Voat was inundated with a mass exodus of

      There is currently a nazi instance. Lots of instances have defederated from it. The instance name involves explosions and heads. Also apparently there’s a loli instance that a lot of instances have defederated from - that one ends in .moe

    • alaphic
      12•1 year ago

      They’re Nazis… What other rhetoric do they have?