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Looks like voat.com/v/deepfakes has already existed for while in anticipation.

IntronExon 9y ago
Voat could create subs to give away free money, candy, and blowjobs and they’d still have more tumbleweeds than active users.
dna_polymerase 9y ago
To me it looks like voat is just the ulta-toxic communities from reddit joined together. I am a fan of real free speech without banning stuff that could offend some people, yet voat does not feel like a solution for that (same goes for Gab, seems like people there are more interested to see Twitter fail than coming together as a community and create a viable environment). That said, I think this will again drive some more people to voat. What it definitely won't do is stopping people from doing deepfakes.
- prepend 9y ago
  I feel similarly. I want free speech, but tempered enough to not bum me out. Reddit is too constrictive, voat is almost as bad as 4chan. I long for the olden days when bbs allowed for lots of diverse stuff without people being banned for mentioning a leaked game of throne episode, or cgi boob. Right now, I feel similarly toward Reddit as Google- moving in an anti-user direction, but no viable alternative to quit to.
greymeister 9y ago
It's telling that other replies to this were a (justifiable) critique of the voat community. Another example of an effect of giant centralized communities (social networks) dominating online discussion. When one of them decides some content isn't acceptable, there are only fringe alternatives out in the Internet wilderness.
- yongjik 9y ago
  It's probably that most people hate the idea of making fake porns of people who don't want to be in porns, and if one likes to pursue that idea, the companies they can find will also harbor other crazy ideas. These ideas basically self-select fringe groups.
  - greymeister 9y ago
    I'd imagine the huge variety of nude/sex mods in almost every video game ever made, or the idea of rule34 in general, seems to indicate it is anything but fringe.
shiado 9y ago
If only there was a site that wasn't as censorious and inconsistent in banning as Reddit and didn't have such a horrible community of users like voat.

Voat could create subs to give away free money, candy, and blowjobs and they’d still have more tumbleweeds than active users.

dna_polymerase 9y ago

To me it looks like voat is just the ulta-toxic communities from reddit joined together. I am a fan of real free speech without banning stuff that could offend some people, yet voat does not feel like a solution for that (same goes for Gab, seems like people there are more interested to see Twitter fail than coming together as a community and create a viable environment). That said, I think this will again drive some more people to voat. What it definitely won't do is stopping people from doing deepfakes.

prepend 9y ago
I feel similarly. I want free speech, but tempered enough to not bum me out. Reddit is too constrictive, voat is almost as bad as 4chan. I long for the olden days when bbs allowed for lots of diverse stuff without people being banned for mentioning a leaked game of throne episode, or cgi boob. Right now, I feel similarly toward Reddit as Google- moving in an anti-user direction, but no viable alternative to quit to.

greymeister 9y ago

It's telling that other replies to this were a (justifiable) critique of the voat community. Another example of an effect of giant centralized communities (social networks) dominating online discussion. When one of them decides some content isn't acceptable, there are only fringe alternatives out in the Internet wilderness.

yongjik 9y ago
It's probably that most people hate the idea of making fake porns of people who don't want to be in porns, and if one likes to pursue that idea, the companies they can find will also harbor other crazy ideas. These ideas basically self-select fringe groups.
- greymeister 9y ago
  I'd imagine the huge variety of nude/sex mods in almost every video game ever made, or the idea of rule34 in general, seems to indicate it is anything but fringe.

shiado 9y ago

If only there was a site that wasn't as censorious and inconsistent in banning as Reddit and didn't have such a horrible community of users like voat.