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[–]Jesus 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

Probably bots and shills.

[–]magnora7[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Perhaps. But either way if the foxes run the henhouse, then what's the point? It's just as compromised as reddit, but in an entirely different way. Reddit is suffering from top-down institutional decay and censorship, whereas voat has a serious culture problem, bots or not

[–]four_leaf_tayback 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I wouldn't need much of a budget or more than a handful of people to cause a "culture problem" though js. Am I incorrect assuming that a disproportionate amount of neonazi types lack access and ability to spout their nonsense esp on a place like voat? finding out about voats existence for the most part requires putting in a good amount of time on reddit no?

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I wouldn't need much of a budget or more than a handful of people to cause a "culture problem" though js.

I know what you mean, but it depends on how good our defenses are. And we many layers of good defenses. And we also have the benefit of seeing what happened to voat, so we can learn from their mistakes.

Another good thing we have going for us, is we can tell trolls to go to voat if they want to shitpost and roleplay as neo-nazis. Voat is like a magnet that draws away the people we don't really want on saidit. It's more the environment they want anyway. Then the truth-seeking people that aren't shitposters then can have saidit :)

[–]four_leaf_tayback 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

perhaps your many layers of good defenses are good evidence of many things

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's mostly preparatory, but I don't doubt that eventually we'll use all the various defenses and probably have to invent a few more.

[–]four_leaf_tayback 4 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

sounds ominous. feels like the matrix. ;)