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?
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?
This is news to me.
I thought all the Voat refugees flocked to Ruqqus and then to Poal when Ruqqus decided to tighten up enforcement of threats of violence based on the Brandenburg Test and lost all of their users. Because apparently stopping people from openly inciting violence against ethnic and religious minorities is the definition of being infiltrated by the government according to these crackpots…
Poal from what I’ve heard is an absolute shitshow run by a staunch power-tripping antisemite that has been known to remove/edit comments, shadowban people, silently lock users out of their accounts by changing passwords/email addresses, etc.
@Clbull Maybe some of them did go to poal and ruqqus, but there was an intermediary site that kept all the info and told users before the site went down they can be verified for their usernames. and then it was converted from sort of a barebones forum back to something that resembles a link aggregator site again.