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?

  • ThisIsMyLemmyLogin@lemmy.world
    19·
    2 years ago

    Voat started out well enough, but after lots of hate communities on Reddit were purged under Ellen Pao’s stint as CEO (under the orders of Spez and Ohanian), Voat was inundated with a mass exodus of angry redditors. Because of this, Voat ended up becoming a right wing echo chamber. Like I said, it was actually a nice alternative when it started out, but rapidly went downhill once the great purge of Reddit took place. Voat ended up closing its doors a few years back due to lack of funds.

    I sincerely hope Lemmy is more successful than Voat, but without the Nazi’s and Trump nuts that festered on Voat.

    • OutrageousUmpire@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 years 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@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 years 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.

      • lwuy9v5@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 years 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