cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/883288

Weird racist posts from dank memes keeps showing up in my feed. Are we doing anything to prevent becoming Voat 2.0? We’re really concerned about Threads and that’s a big unknown. Weird racists already destroyed the last Reddit escape are we concerned about that? Like are we going to make a policy of defederating hate groups?

I’m pretty confident this community is using fake accounts since every post starts at ~20 and then gets down voted after it’s been forced into a bunch of people’s feed.

If not that’s fine I guess but does anyone have a suggestion for somewhere that will?

    • averagedrunk
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      Was it? I don’t ask that to be a jackass. I remember being on there briefly before the racist and jailbait bans on Reddit and it didn’t come across as terribly racist to me at the beginning. But it sure as hell got really racist, creepy, and fat-hatey really damn quick.

      There’s a possibility I just missed it. I’m pretty oblivious unless something is right in my face.

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        Voat was founded to be free speech maximalist relative to Reddit. Basically the only subreddits Reddit ever banned that weren’t bigots or pedophiles were r/shoplifting because corpos don’t like being stolen from and r/chapotraphouse to present an appearance of impartiality when banning r/thedonald.

        When someone online bemoans a lack of free speech, you have to ask, “free speech to say what?” in much the same tone as you might ask, “states’ rights to do what?”

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          The DNM subs and some other drug subs also got banned - that crowd mostly just went back to Erowid, Blue light, and dark.fail though, not Voat

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        To the best of my memory, it started out as a less moderated more free speech space. But that kind of place online tends to attract racists, bigots, and haters because most places online are very free except for those kinds of speech.

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        IIRC, Voat either was created in response to or got popular after the banning of /r/fatpeoplehate and some other shitty subs.

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      I think it was a good plan-b for about a week; but yeah, it went to absolute shite in such record time.

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      I’ll never forget my first trip to Voat, literally Nazi shit on the front page with a shitton of votes.

      Never went back.

      Happy it’s gone.