Recently, someone told me that I didn't know about the history of Voat prior to the period where many people joined during the Q rush. I actually joined during the Q rush without even knowing about the Q drops at all. There were some important names mentioned that I didn't know about either.
It would greatly help me if we could summarize the important history of Voat and the users that made this site what it is for the new people who are getting ready to join this community. If anything, I'd like to learn more about my home away from home.
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sakuramboo ago
> Originally called Whoaverse
> Subs were called Subverses (still called that today)
> Atko was original owner
> Name changed to Voat around the time of the first major mass censorship of Reddit
> Atko stepped down and Puttitout took over
> Lots of server problems and DDoS attacks throughout the years
> Members of /v/Linux helped Puttitout migrate many parts of Voat to Linux to help cut costs
> Each major migration wave gets met with our hazing, if you survive, you can stay
> We apparently have some secret investor that no one wants to talk about (most guess its a glow in the dark)
> Canary is died earlier this year
hang_em_high ago
What were all the major migrations? I know FPH was before I got here. I came around the time of the Pizzagate stuff. MDE after that and Q subs.
TheSolutionist ago
I seriously quit Reddit when they banned mde. Now I only visit t_d there, because they literally banned any fucking edgy sub that existed and everything else is just boring.
drj2 ago
mde was one of the only ones that seamlessly fit in to voat
Maggotfeast ago
Cringeanarchy also, they posted all the same content as vote
crazy_eyes ago
those cucks did not seamlessly fit in
hang_em_high ago
MDE was really one of the only good fit migrations that I remember. Unfortunately the sub seems pretty slow now. TD banned me for criticizing "take the guns first" and bump stock stuff. They were censoring hundreds of comments that day. I never once went back after that bullshit.
Saproliteone ago
The only other active MDE community I can think of out there was on 8chan for a while until they went under. But they pretty much just whined about how voat mde people jewpost too much and how Sam is a pedophile sex addict who jewed Charls out of book money and has to pay Nick to make appearances on his Gumroad show.
TheSolutionist ago
TD mods bend the knee to live another day on the platform. Their heart is at the right place. They are good mods.
Hello_world88 ago
I got banned from t_d permanently for talking shit about muzlims. They’re fucking cucks
Maggotfeast ago
That's weird, Muslims are the only ones I ever saw td talk shit about frequently
Hello_world88 ago
I know I was seriously taken aback. there may have been some slight inciting of violence towards them as well
AlexanderMorose13 ago
Fuck Islam. You were only telling the truth.
hang_em_high ago
Bullshit. That had nothing to do with something that would get the sub banned. That was a basic criticism of a Trump statement that even the libs and MSM were criticizing. They allow ZERO criticism of Trump there. Mods are censors like every other part of reddit.
sakuramboo ago
Not in any specific order...
> Ellen Pao's first iron fist
> Gamergate
> Pizzagate
> FPH and that group of subreddits
> T_D getting quarantined (was temporary, most went back)
> There were at least two batches of "racist" subreddits that got banned
Whenever there's a new batch of subreddit bans, there's heavy activity on /v/MeanwhileOnReddit that showcases who got banned.
crazy_eyes ago
dont forget the incels, but they all left
thecajunone ago
And very recently all black pilled, incel subs, clown world, fren etc subs were banned
And watchredditdie had a very blatant hostile takeover
european ago
first racist sub was probaly /r/coontown. They came and set up shop at /r/niggers @eagleshigh . Then /r/european was probably the next racist sub.
antiracist ago
Member when I posted black on blonde porn as the banner of v/niggers and it stayed like that for like a week? I member.
It was lulz.
@eagleshigh @bojangles @sarmegahhikkitha
european ago
You are @eugenix right?
Antiracist10 ago
No, I'm antiracist.
european ago
Who is antiracist though?
antiracist3 ago
Antiracist is my original name. I only use alts with a number after them, up to 10, because faggot tyrant @PuttItOut only allows my accounts one comment post a day, because pedophile @Crensch and his already army downvoted my accounts to oblivion because he hates free speech. Also, Crensch is an idiot who loves loli porn and child sex dolls.
@eagleshigh @bojangles @sarmegahhikkitha
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european ago
How did you manage to change the headers of /v/niggers. That is why I said eugenix. The pinging you do is weird tio
Antiracist4 ago
I wasn't saying you did. I was saying that Voaters have accused me of being other Voaters, who I am not.
I was a mod.
To provide checks and balances to the extremist racist echo chamber. Also, there was this cartoon called Antiracist Hitler that I liked.
@Bojangles is like the only person on Voat I like. @gabara seems cool too.
@eagleshigh was my original nemesis, but we worked things out, and he became my philosophy student. Although, he isn't really that great of a student, as he doesn't read or reply on time, and it has been years and he still hasn't learned elementary logic.
@SarMegahhikkitha was for a time my kike master, until I eventually became convinced that he is an illogical and immoral cult member misologist who acts in bad faith.
Because I have so many accounts, and I don't expect them to read my comment histories of my accounts, I ping them instead.
No.
SarMegahhikkitha ago
"Gabara seems cool." Gabara is an account shared by SRS members and bots.
"Sar sucks," says the guy who has gone so far away from the truth that he thinks a bot that posts random nonsense is "cool", and spends all his time on a fake website showing off how much smarter he is than the dregs of society while pinging random people, leading everyone to think he's just some schizophrenic. I'll take that as a complement.
european ago
Who made you a mod?
european ago
I never imagined eugenix or amalek would be the same person. Why are you anti racist?
eagleshigh ago
what's up man. it's been a while
Maggotfeast ago
I came when they shut down cringeanarchy
HeebyKneegrow ago
I came here after they got rid of watchpeopledie
Maltherian1 ago
The T-D was the most humorous. They thought they could takeover. They lasted about three weeks if I remember. Freedom is not for the weak.
Rellik88 ago
We forced them to donate to server time too.
CantBuySkills ago
Agreed... they also thought they were frontline members of the great meme war. Psh. Faggots.
Plavonica ago
Freedom requires the strength of an individualist who works with others to ensure said freedom.