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[–]TheNorwegian7th 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

Voat is dead unless they can get rid of their user base.

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

Whats wrong with voat? Havnt been there

[–]TheNorwegian7th 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

The straight up racist extremists have displaced the original user base. I was on there back when it was called whoaverse, totally different crowd now.

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

Eh, it seemed like voat's "immune system" to leftist takeover was similar to the chans. At first...

But instead of tongue-in-cheek nastiness chasing away NPCs/Sheep/Lemmings, whatever you call them, it made actually nasty people think they'd found good company. Then the hivemind cycle kicked up all over again, but with different triggers.

It was a good place in 2016, but now it's just one more link aggregate in a mass grave of places that had good discussion.