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Voat.com has been around for a while. They made a decent push during some reddit drama ~2 years ago. However, looking through voat 'subverses' aka subreddits they look pretty dead for the counterparts that I visit on reddit ex: www.reddit.com/r/homebrewing vs www.voat.com/v/homebrewing and www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine vs www.voat.com/v/unrealengine

Their 'HOT' ordering makes the site look dead where they should probably take into account newer stories as everything in the 'HOT' ranking is years old (except for heavier trafficked subverses)



I noticed that a surprisingly large number of comments on Voat were anti-semitic and/or racist.

Totally out of context, I mean.

You might expect hate speech on political subreddits/subverses, but on Voat these were just out of the blue, and numerous.


Voat's userbase consists of the members and communities who were banned by Reddit's hate speech policy.

Effectively, Voat is Reddit's "recycle bin." Judging from its content, I think the admins made the right call..


> Voat is Reddit's "recycle bin."

I definitely agree, but I also remember how Reddit was considered the dumping ground for users banned on Digg and content that wasn't good enough for Digg.

Today unpleasant content probably makes up a large percentage of Voat traffic. But if a few big subreddits moved over that percentage would be dwarfed and suddenly it's no longer a Recycle Bin.


Voat has had three big influxes of users in the last few years:

- When reddit cracked down on the paedophilia subreddits

- When reddit banned fatpeoplehate

- When reddit banned and/or hid some of the more egregiously Nazi-ish subreddits.

So yeah, this is pretty much what you'd expect.


It’s not surprising given the context in which it was started.


It's voat.co, not voat.com




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