Goats,
One of the best "behind the scenes" goats at voat has been @SearchVoat over at v/SearchVoat. He has indexed all of Voat's public data (majority) and you can access it at https://searchvoat.co. I consider him to be trustworthy and honorable.
Don't panic out about saving all your old data before Voat is shutdown, it is Christmas and all.
Here is a post with more details: https://voat.co/v/SearchVoat/4170146
Hope this helps.
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BMF1976 ago
Where/what are the sites most are relocating to?
parnellsUprising ago
I’ve gone to poal, and aether, but as the latter is just an app, it’s only for when I am on the actual computer. In the long run though, I believe that something more de-centralized like that will be the future.
Chempergrill ago
Aether is super sus. It requires downloading binaries, and no coherent argument has been made for it other than 2 guys spamming.
Poal it is.
parnellsUprising ago
Yes, those client "binaries" are open source, as is the backend as well, so you can download the source and compile it yourself, and review the code any way you want as well.
https://getaether.net/docs/developers/
https://getaether.net/opensource/
Now, is their back-doors from the bogeyman du jour? Quite possibly. I have not reviewed the code, but if someone can corrupt Solar Winds as comprehensively as they did, then it is quite possible that there exists bad actors in any and all code, whether open source or closed.
Chempergrill ago
No one does. That's the fatal flaw of open source.
parnellsUprising ago
That is not necessarily true. I have certainly reviewed what code is doing when I have seen oddities/ abnormalities that I did not understand/ like, and I have done work implementing/ evaluating numerous open source projects. But at the very least in open source, you have the ability to actually view the code if you have a question or concern, unlike closed source systems, where you trust the plan goy.
The fact is, no matter what the fuck you develop in, their are libraries that you are using that potentially have been corrupted. There is not a developer in the world that will tell you differently, unless you are a dumb fucking kike like Krebs who insists that this was the most successful "election" ever, as the entire US was getting hacked by an unknown agent.