I don’t remember what caused the Voat’s origin, except it involved Reddit HQ. And then it went under in 2020.

What’s different about this time and with Lemmy to make it a feasible alternative to Reddit? Is it random chance?

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    1 year ago

    A lot of folks already pointed out Voat’s main issues, but the biggest thing here is that any sort of open source thing like this can’t really totally fail if anyone is still using it. Voat was still centralized if I’m not mistaken.

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      Pretty sure Voat was based off the opensource version of Reddit. Which is basically old reddit with non of the Spam protection built into it.