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>I'm generally against the idea of banning subreddits because they just move elsewhere. The alternative platforms tend to die off, though. Like Voat.
by whymauri 6y ago
>I'm generally against the idea of banning subreddits because they just move elsewhere.
The alternative platforms tend to die off, though. Like Voat.
- mschuster91 6y ago> The alternative platforms tend to die off, though. Because it turns out that those drifting to "alternative, free speech" platforms mostly are Nazis and pedos, and normal people don't want to hang out on a platform where the only other people are Nazis and pedos. To put it bluntly: the free market has decided that Nazi opinion and pedo stuff is not welcomed.
- dleslie 6y agoSome do, others stick around. Like Gab, Parler and others.
- whymauri 6y agoWe'll see. Parler (two years old) in particular is especially young. I'm not sure if Gab (four years old) has the funding to survive another few years. Voat lasted six solid years before running out of cash, so that's going to be my approximate benchmark. Parler might outlast both if politicians keep moving to that platform. In that case, I might be wrong. TheDonald.win is way too focused, though.
- jandrese 6y ago4chan has managed to hang on despite everything. Although many of the spinoff chans have collapsed.
- redisman 6y agoParler in it's current form probably won't survive the next spree shooter or whatever it causes. It's way too traditional in it's setup as a "normal" US company. The only sites that survive these kinds of things need to be decentralized and find hosting and cloud services from non-traditional sources.