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?

  • Big P@feddit.uk
    1·
    1 year ago

    Voat was born out of several questionable subs being banned from reddit so naturally the userbase was into very questionable things. That’s why they failed so hard

      • shawnshitshow@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        the great thing is that it has absolutely no bearing outside of that one instance. they have no control over anything that happens in lemmy.world or any other instance, if they are even exerting it over their own

        • goat@sh.itjust.works
          07·
          1 year ago

          you wouldn’t be saying that if tankies were replaced with nazis or something else, just sayin’

          • pannacotta__@lemmy.world
            0·
            1 year ago

            Tankies suck, but they’re so far from nazis morally it’s not even really fair to tankies to compare them.

            At least tankies generally speaking aren’t okay with genocide of innocents.

            • goat@sh.itjust.works
              14·
              1 year ago

              If they praise Stalin, Mao or the CCP, then they’re on the same level. Genociders all.