First off, I need to say that I know I’ve let a lot of you down (if not all). I know I’ve not met your expectations of an admin or a leader. I have no excuses as even I feel this way about myself. I won’t make attempts for empathy, I will only acknowledge the truth, and it is such.
Life is full of surprises. You can be rich one minute and living out of your car the next. You can be healthy one year and a regular in the doctor’s office the following. You can have life figured out only to discover you know nothing in the end. The only constant in life is change.
My life is not the same it was when I first met @Atko and started working on Voat. I have much less time, I have a bit less fight in me (getting old does this), I have a bit more struggle in life. These life changes have forced me to put Voat on the back burner (which hurts me).
Let’s get real
When it comes to “Free Speech” sites, I once believed that people cared enough about the value of free speech to make “clone” sites like Voat (or gab) successful. I’ve come to realize, and have said before, that this single factor isn’t enough. People simply do not value this right enough to make a “clone” successful.
You can see this with Voat. A majority of Voat users still use Reddit. People use Reddit for posting and interacting when it comes to PC topics (4 wheel drive subs, movie subs, book subs, etc.). They use Voat to post the things they can’t post on Reddit. This creates an imbalance where Voat becomes increasingly un-PC, while Reddit gets the neutral content (I know even the most hardened ideologue has a level of civility). The end result is this imbalance drives people away as people wear out when confronted by content like this over the long run.
I don’t know the solution to this, and I am not attempting to pass blame, I am simply stating a truth that has to considered.
What makes a clone not a clone?
Why I mention this in the first place is that I know a “clone” site will not become sustainable based on Freedom of Speech so I’ve tried to revolutionize the “community” aspect of Voat by providing a way the community itself can “vote” on policy (rules, mods, anything actually). It's the future capability of this feature-set that is appealing. A community can become self-sustaining and self-manageable through this new technology. After all, the draw of sites like Voat or Reddit is that it is community-oriented vs. self-oriented.
And I’m going to finish it. I’m going to finish it for me. I’m going to finish it for you. I’m going to finish it for Voat. I’m going to finish it for Freedom of Speech (because I still believe in this ideal).
I’m going to finish it because a “clone” site with no differentiation but policy will never succeed.
So Voat, please forgive me for my shortcomings if you can, and expect my work to continue on making Voat a truly unique website.
Soon.
P.S. Downtime today was because of a full disk (Thanks @derram for letting me know). We had an issue from about a year ago that inflated some files to crazy sizes and I took the time today to deal with this. So the next downtime should be something completely different! Yay!
https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806
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drozzxd ago
The globalists won't be defeated without free speech sites like voat. Thanks for sticking it out.
Tallest_Skil ago
The jews won’t be exterminated if you’re too much of a fucking pussy to call them by their name, either.
unclejimbo ago
Globalists to mean means Jews+Jew Allies
Tallest_Skil ago
To you, sure. What about a normalfag? What about a regular guy who comes here and thinks that his neocon brainwashing is “far right”? Just speak the truth in as plain a language as you can. Everything outs itself. It’s not globalists, it’s not the illuminati, it’s not the jesuits, it’s not the freemasons, it’s not even the zionists. It’s the jews.
The road to victory here is to not allow the message to be watered down.
Do not say, “Well, I don’t agree with Hitler, but…” No. You do agree with Hitler. And so do they. Describe national socialism as it actually was, but without using the word. When they agree with you, say, “Congratulations; you’re a fucking nazi.” When they act incredulous, simply explain the obvious. Wall Street. Bankers. Corporations. All of the rich fat-cat bastards of today who they pretend to hate? Jews. Jews. Jews, a thousand times. If there is one thing you can prove, it is this: it is always the Jews. Now show them history. Show them how it was the exact same–even worse–in the early 20th century and earlier. The kikes were at it then just as they’re at it now, bleeding the world dry and driving entire nations to ruin. I have done this before. You have to be merciless. You have to make them realize that it is you, not they, who is the true revolutionary.
They think that they’re fighting against “the man,” but they don’t know who the man is. You do. Point to him. Call him by his first fucking name. Show them his crimes and they will realize that they are wrong. And that he is wrong.
DeliciousOnions ago
I can tell you one thing for sure - I was a Bernie fag who came to Voat for free speech. I already agreed with the "elite globalist" arguments but I dismissed all the hooknose accusations as racist bullshit for the first year I was here.
Pills can be hard to swallow, let the normies take them one at a time or they'll give up.
SexMachine ago
My path to the red pill was through the holocaust. I love history. So once I found out that the holocaust was all a lie, it took little convincing for me to believe that they're still lying to us.
VoatIsForTimmy ago
Jews are great at marketing. Soon, the Holocaust will be sponsored by Disney, CNN and the Rothschild's.
SexMachine ago
It pretty much already is sponsored by Hollywood.