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
markrod420 ago
Our ability to withstand significant invasion using the voat imune system of literally just calling people niggerfaggots and kikes has worked stunningly well.
checks-out ago
Can you ELI5 why that's an immune system for voat
markrod420 ago
Every time a large crowd comes to voat they are usually of a quantity to risk destroying the environment of voat. If every migration had come here unfettered voat would have been converted to another progressive circle jerk ages ago. But because we scare off newfags in huge volumes we maintain our core culture. Every person here can tolerate being called a nigger a faggot a kike a shill and every other name under the sun. If you havent been called those things you havent participated much yet. You dont have to agree with everything. I was openly anti racist my first like 6 months or longer here. I never got downvoated into limitations on my activity because i never tried to tell anyone "you cant say that because muh feelings" and i never exhibited emotionally manipulative conversation derailing shill tactics. It makes sure we dont become infested with censorship. Shills sure, tons. But not censorship. We say what we want and if you cant handle it you can go get goodified nigger :)
heretolearn ago
proper summary.