[–] farto 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
I like Voat for now. Nice, quieter community. Decent submissions. Not all just pictures of cats, and facebook chain letter kind of shit. Haven't seen one Pun thread yet. Nothing pisses me off than going into a comment section to read what people have to say, and the first comment has 50 shitty puns.
But this will turn shit in a couple of years, like all websites do. Enjoying the ride for now though!
[–] Joliet_Jake_Blues 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I concur.
Once voat is big enough to make money, it'll go the same direction reddit did.
[–] Joliet_Jake_Blues 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
A lot of the stuff he's talking about isn't a conspiracy or even reddit's fault, a lot of it is human nature. Like people wanting to be power mods, and have control over a lot of subs. That will happen on Voat too (even if we say they can only mod 10 subs, people will try to be a mod at the 10 biggest).
Ron Paul was made fun of on /r/circlejerk because Ron Paul was popular on reddit. If you aren't libertarian, libertarians are incredibly annoying and smug in their ignorance. A ripe target for parody.
Of course AMA was going to be monetized. Reddit is a business and its goal is to make money. If it can market celebrities and make money doing it, it's going to do that. It also drew a shitload of people to reddit. I forwarded AMAs to family/friends if I knew they were a fan of the subject. This introduced many of them to reddit and several ended up making accounts.
And the rest is the natural progression of a business growing from "fun idea that doesn't make money yet" to a business.
It got big, corporations wanted a presence. That's what they do. They are on twitter and Facebook and pinterest, etc. Of course they'll come to reddit.
I doubt the government really cared about reddit, however.
[–] ExcraMernaise1488 2 points 2 points 4 points (+4|-2) ago
This isn't interesting or news. Who gives a shit about reddit
Be suspicious of this article. AntiMedia is a "PROGRESSIVE" phony baloney not-liberal Liberal news site with a serious SJW bent.
I think the deal with this article is the editor of AntiMedia sees the writing on the wall for Reddit and wants to be on the right side of its implosion. That is all. The article uses a laughable premise that the censorship is just Right Wing actions: Putin supporters are censored, supposedly for instance.
I think that the conclusion of this piece is correct, REDDIT is Censorship, but the examples and list of issues like the conclusions being drawn by posters about the Boston Bombing Jihadis smacks of SJW.
Note that the key words of POLITICALLY CORRECT and SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS are entirely missing.
[–] sexykilt 0 points 14 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago
This is definitely spot on. I was there for a long time and more and more stuff started adding up before I made the switch.
[–] Prions_on_the_Brain 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
I've really noticed a serious drop in community quality over the past two years. They've been a victim of their own success, like most things people do.
[–] I_DONT_SLEEP_AT_ALL 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Having a dozen or so defaults may have been a good idea at first, but once subscribers get into the millions you start getting problems. No one person should decide the fate of an entire subreddit when it gets that big.
[–] capnjack78 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Just came over here from reddit myself after seeing voat mentioned in a front page post. I am hoping I can claim the subs that I run over here in voat.
[–] neofatalist 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Made the switch myself... go1dfish, politicBot, etc got shadowbanned and thats that....