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I mean... remember Voat? That was literally the whole point was they would take the refugees from banned subreddits into their Reddit clone. The place got unbea
by DoctorOW 5y ago
I mean... remember Voat? That was literally the whole point was they would take the refugees from banned subreddits into their Reddit clone. The place got unbearably racist and then the site died. I remember because I checked Voat out periodically for a while, I was on the fence about this whole "free speech" debate until I saw the end result.
- mynameishere 5y agoI think that was a one-man operation and he ran out of money. My guess: Since he couldn't also spin up his own advertising network, he was out of luck.
- account42 5y agoContinuing to allow fringe views is entirely different from a forum made for those whose views were deemed too extreme elsewhere.