Identifying yourself at SearchVoat or any future Voat clone

Identifying yourself at SearchVoat or any future Voat clone (SearchVoat)

submitted 4.3 years ago by SearchVoat

The end of Voat has been sprung upon us with only a few days' notice.

I have been inundated with requests; some goats urgently wish to preserve data, others urgently wish to delete it.

Many are asking where we go from here - another site, or a yet-to-be developed Voat clone.

It will take more than a few days to answer all these questions.

Meanwhile, if Voat goes dark on Dec 25th there will be no way to identify yourself as the author and owner of any particular Voat user data.

Therefore I have started distributing passwords to Voat users via DM. This password may be used in future to identify you, at least at SearchVoat.co (although there is no way to actually log in to that site... yet) and possibly at some Voat clone TBA.

The distribution process is slow, so you may not have received a password yet. It prioritises users based on the most recent posts. Therefore the quickest way to make sure you get one is to post a submission or a comment - such as adding a reply to this submission below.

Please keep the password secure and secret in case I can think of some way to make use of it.

Stay safe goats

Cheers, SV

EDIT: PS keep an eye on the top of the front page of SearchVoat.co for information regarding a migration site for Voat.

EDIT 2: The SearchVoat Forum is up. Use your Voat username and the password sent to via DM by @SearchVoatBot to log in. More info at this Voat post.

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captainstrange 4.3 years ago

An alternative for those who prefer to be the only party that has their pass:

Post a checksum of a secret phrase.

Later on, the only thing it takes to prove who you are, is to post the plaintext and anyone can verify it is you by getting the checksum of the plaintext.