This time has a chance to be different. Perhaps not a large chance, but still quite a bit higher than sites like Voat had. The problem with Voat and many of th

This time has a chance to be different. Perhaps not a large chance, but still quite a bit higher than sites like Voat had. The problem with Voat and many of the others was that they either started in response to Reddit changes that most users didn't care about and that of those that did care the majority favored the changes, or if they already existed they were small enough that the people who left Reddit for them due to those Reddit change quickly became the overwhelming majority of their users. Voat, for example either started because or got the majority of its users because Reddit got rid of /r/coontown and similar racist subreddits and got rid of a bunch of child sex subreddits. Those quickly reformed on Voat. People did make Voat groups for mainstream things like movies and science, and some people tried to make those decent alternatives to say /r/movies and /r/science but it did't work. Any decent discussion on /v/movies or /v/science you could also find on /r/movies or /r/science. But on /v/movies or /v/science you'd also have a bunch of the racist and antisemite discussions too which weren't on /r/movies or /r/science. For example see this Voat discussion of season 2 of The Mandalorian from /v/movies [1]. Here's an example from /v/science [2]. This time has a chance to be different because this time it won't be the dregs of Reddit leaving. It will mostly be decent people leaving. Those who remain might actually miss them instead of being happy they are gone, and so might consider actually following. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201225021055/https://voat.co/v/movies/4164913 https://web.archive.org/web/20201225021055/https://voat.co/v... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20201223123156/https://voat.co/v/science/4152241 https://web.archive.org/web/20201223123156/https://voat.co/v...