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As bad is voat is I've seen that aspect of humanity on Youtube, Facebook, the comment section of most major news sites, the live chat of twitch, etc.
by ben_jones 8y ago
As bad is voat is I've seen that aspect of humanity on Youtube, Facebook, the comment section of most major news sites, the live chat of twitch, etc.
- bgilroy26 8y agoHistorically, voat and gab were set up because its users disapproved of the moderation on reddit and twitter. That differentiates the cultures on voat and gab from their predecessors.
- tptacek 8y agoThat is an extraordinarily charitable way to describe the genesis of Gab, which actually has roots in a YC batch (that its founder, Andrew Torba, was kicked out of).
- tomjakubowski 8y agoCould you say more about the Gab-YC connection?
- tptacek 8y agoTorba had an unrelated YC startup during the batch that was running during the 2016 election season. He was ejected from YC for harassing batch-mates; there's an HN thread about it you can find in the search bar. He started Gab at just about the same time as he was kicked out of YC.
- giobox 8y agoOf course it exists everywhere in some measure (one can’t change the nature of humanity all that easily with just a website), but at least YouTube/Twitch/Facebook actually have some degree of value/utility. Voat et al appear to exist as little more than platforms for hateful bile that isn’t tolerated elsewhere.
- orf 8y agoFar worse.
- VectorLock 8y agoThose sites weren't built with the specific intention of hosting people that were too much for other sites.
- anigbrowl 8y agoThat's quite true, but armies need bases.
- InclinedPlane 8y agoAnd? It shouldn't be there either.