What is going on? (AskVoat)

submitted ago by MiG-21

and how long are we going to be down?

and that is the whole point of this lockdown? I doubt voat is still under DDOS attack(and even if we assume it is, wouldn't it be reasonable to think that if some forces have been attacking voat constantly for months, they will keep attacking voat forever?), it has been fucking months since we are down.

Owner proudly claims that:

This is where I think the hand of God works in mysterious ways. They next came after Voat, but because of the recent attacks, Voat was inaccessible to those without accounts, thus giving them zero content in which to twist and distort in order to pressure a company like CloudFlare

Am I the only one who thinks this is extremely illogical ? Declaring a victory over hate police because they were unable to 'shut us down'? no shit, they couldn't shut us down, we shut ourselves down. I think owners don't understand that they took us down,for 99.99999% of internet-they took us down, no one but registered users can access voat, I have no access to stats, but I am fairly sure that our already small population decreased even further (and vorse, right now it has zero chance of growth) Voat is nothing more than some well hidden discord group or closed niche community on major websites.

Here comes a question, sure, they didn't shut us down, but what is the point of websites' existence in this circumstances ? Can site owners tell us what goals hate police would have achieved with shutting voat down what they haven't achieved with this self imposed lockdown anyway ? is becoming small closed community group with several hundred people (at best) aim of voat? because if it is, I doubt hate police has anything against that.

and finally, what the heck are site owners planning to do ? Are you guys just waiting it to stop ? or planning to do something? and most importantly, what the heck is the strategy of the website? what is the aim?

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Redcobra ago

I think a bit of quiet time was necessary.things got ugly with srayzie drama and there wasn’t really a sense of community anymore it was getting too loose I think the ddos attack was a blessing in disguise.its only been a month or something so who cares ?

MiG-21 ago

I think a bit of quiet time was necessary.

for what ?

there wasn’t really a sense of community anymore it was getting too loose I think

what is the aim of the website? to provide friendly place for couple hundred people ? then fine, we can keep things this way for ever.

now if the aim is to provide place where people will have freedom of speech, voat stopped doing that since the start of lockdown. hunt on 'hate speech' isn't getting better anytime soon, if we are afraid of the site being taken offline due to free speech, we will never go online again.

its only been a month or something so who cares ?

I do.

I think we deserve to know what is going on, when are we going to be back online for rest of internet (if ever), what are plans of owners and what are they going to do in case DDOS attack keeps happening again and again.

We don't even know reason why we are locked down, is it DDOS attack? is it fear of being attacked for 'hate speech'? or something else?

So far, all Putt has said is 'we are under attack but trust the plan we will prevail'.

fluhthreeex ago

pretty much 100%. if this is going to stay essentially off-line we're just here pissing into the wind. meanwhile putt is going all-out sperg mode.