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It cannot be stressed enough how core this was to Voat's identity, and also how much it poisoned the entire platform. When even objecting to bigotry is against the ethos of the site then there's no way to build a healthy community, much less an inclusive one.
Also if anyone is curious how much of a cesspool Voat became, here's the most "upvoated" for the month just six months before the site shut down. Warning: lots of bigotry.
If that showed up on some Lemmy instance, you'd still have people saying "Defederation is bad! Marketplace of ideas! Just block them and move on! It's just one person!" :sigh:
Chances are they'd be screaming it into the void with how fast their instance would get defederated though. :P
IIRC Voat also added the option to block communities, which prevented the hateful ones from showing up on the front page.
That obviously didn't help...
Well yeah their front page was empty.
I need to take warnings a lot more seriously on this site. That's the second time I disregarded a warning and hate myself for it.
I remember when voat happened, I only wish it took more of Reddit (and maybe a ceo) with it.
I only had to read the post title before noping out. Jfc that’s bad.
Same. I don't even understand how you can hold such comically evil fucking viewpoints... Like, Disney villains aren't that atrocious.
Holy shit, that’s bad. Who would want to be liable for hosting deplorable stuff like that?
Nobody as it turns out, or at least not for very long.
That's not bigotry. That's flat out lunacy at this stage.
Huh. That archive looks just like I'm looking at /pol.
What a cesspool. I can't help but laugh.