I tried Voat out a while ago, went there a few times a day for about a week. It was like reddit, if reddit actually made impovements and upgrades. In-line video and image expansion, dark mode available. There were other improvements to the commenting and upvoting system that essentially made it impossible to create new accounts and brigading/harassing.
The community (in general) is pretty nice, mostly reddit refugees or converts, mostly people who don't like the way the site is going. A lot of jokes about how reddit must have really fucked up (after voat's servers went down), and a lot of posts about being glad to be there, etc, but otherwise pretty similar to reddit's content.
It definitely has potential, but they definitely need to be able to handle the influx of people that are clamoring to try them out.
Honestly, I would be more than happy for both sites to make it through this with their own communities. One of the best things I've been seeing from the Reddit abandonment has been a chance for these smaller sites to show off and expand what makes all of them unique from the Reddit super-site. I don't see why only one site has to make it out of this as the only "winner".
Yea, from what I've read of comments from people who actually got into Voat, about half have said that the community is made up in nice people. So it's worth a try, for me at least.
I tried Voat out a while ago, went there a few times a day for about a week. It was like reddit, if reddit actually made impovements and upgrades. In-line video and image expansion, dark mode available. There were other improvements to the commenting and upvoting system that essentially made it impossible to create new accounts and brigading/harassing.
The community (in general) is pretty nice, mostly reddit refugees or converts, mostly people who don't like the way the site is going. A lot of jokes about how reddit must have really fucked up (after voat's servers went down), and a lot of posts about being glad to be there, etc, but otherwise pretty similar to reddit's content.
It definitely has potential, but they definitely need to be able to handle the influx of people that are clamoring to try them out.
Honestly, I would be more than happy for both sites to make it through this with their own communities. One of the best things I've been seeing from the Reddit abandonment has been a chance for these smaller sites to show off and expand what makes all of them unique from the Reddit super-site. I don't see why only one site has to make it out of this as the only "winner".
Yea, from what I've read of comments from people who actually got into Voat, about half have said that the community is made up in nice people. So it's worth a try, for me at least.