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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      1 year ago

      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.