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[–]Barber_Acrobatic 116 insightful - 36 fun116 insightful - 35 fun117 insightful - 36 fun -  (3 children)

Oh dear God, the poor little lambs. Why haven't we done the decent thing and scrubbed ourselves from the earth.

How sensitive do you have to be to be this fucking twitchy about people on another site talking?

Guess what, I had a nosy at Voat once and it was truly a cesspit, you know what I did, closed it and didn't go back.

[–]emissch 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

what is the deal with voat? i've heard the name a few times but am out of the loop on what happened/what it is. not sure if i want to pop in on it yet.

[–]Barber_Acrobatic 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think it sprang up after the FatPeopleHate bans. It's another alternative to reddit but I think if we'd moved the sub there it would have been like trying to build a house in a incel marsh. It is absolutely not my sort of place, if you want to see what naked racism/sexism and fuck knows what else looks like it's worth a gander, when I went it was literally 'n word this' 'fucking whores' that all over the front page.

[–]emissch 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for the info, I just looked at it for a few seconds and yeah definitely a cesspit. I feel conflicted about places like that because on the one hand, it's good to have these things out in the open just to keep tabs on the degenerate ideas in the world. on the other hand, it can serve as an amplification and echo chamber for more dangerous ideas and has real world consequences. its a tough one