Welcome, good to have more Americans here and let me give you a run down on the history I have pieced together as a jigsaw and a run down on demographics here at voat. The Voat community used to start as Whoaverse, maybe some DrWho scifi site, maybe an open source alternative to Reddit a kind of Opensource software thing who knows the real legend. It was a very small tiny community a little bit of fiction fantasy scifi, a little 4chan, some Gamergate, Dr Who maybe... you typically had 10 posts per week. They would stay on the top of all for the next 2 weeks, tumble weeds blow by some dusty ghost town like those old Cowboy and Indian films. Some dude kiwi mark hung around nobody knew who he was someone said he was an asshole, another said he might know some kim dot hacker, some else said he was a troll. A guy Atko ran the show, rumored to be a refugee himself, a Bosnia? was he in Sweden? or Switzerland who knows? Maybe he was an ex-muslim, voat did not have a foundation, it was an alternative and was a little chaotic back then.

Now while voat just getting born, was a tiny little baby website, literally a horde of Thousands spammers and attackers from places like Reddit facebook, mostly reddit came to try and take voat off line for good. Maybe someone should make a documentary but like the Greek legend of Hercules getting attacked by snakes, serpents as a baby, voat also survived. Next came a huge wave of alternative libertarian and white conservative users from the United States. Bernie Sanders fans were getting their posts shutdown, forums deleted, at the same time this was happening you had the censorship of 'Coontown' people who went fuck this nigga, or fuck this 'nigger' culture and people who did not support the Black Lives Matter movement. Finally news started to leak that Hillary might have some how rigged the election against Bernie Sanders, that's when waves and waves of Libertarians started to arrive.

At the same time this is happening you have the refugee invasion of Europe, the immigration crisis, the fallout from the Libya war, the ISIS or Daesh or ISIL in Iraq and Syria etc Each week on the shores and beaches and ports and coasts South Europe you literally were having thousands upon thousands of refugees arriving some perhaps were not refugees they could be militants, islamists, criminals, rapists? People from all over the world arriving not just refugees but all of them Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Iran...you name it they arrived from 'SHITHOLE' countries as the media once put it. Reddit once again hit hard and news stories were cenosred they try to silence news on a rightwing nationalist LePen in France, Canada, England, Germany you name it reddit became part of this giant global censorship team. and some of These other countries do not respect freedom of speech like the United States does, Australia which is very much kinda Aussie British english speaking Australian they start to go a little more left and thousands from Canada and Australia come here, there are also a lot of Germans after Merkel promised to take in over A MILLION refugees, people did not have an outlet online i guess so they came to voat, Trump wins, liberals and Antifa have a hissy fit, CNN is fake news.

During this time a guy Atko started to step back and a guy Puttit out started to take over. There are a shit ton of conspiracy about who did what and whats happening behind the scenes, the site also went offline for a day which added more conspiracy. The largest migrations have been from reddit, for a while they locked theDonald forum i guess in some sort of reddit admin hissy fit that Hillary lost the election, it sent thousands and thousands here. Reddit these days seems to have gone full communist globalist leftwing, even censors posts criticizing islam. Each month they ban a new thread, censor a new sub or block and ban and thousands more come from these erased online communities, voat for this past year probably has a strong reputation to have an Alt-right, Conservative, Rightwing, troll Hitler like element to the site I think its a little more chaotic and 4chan like

The latest invasions seem to be from some troll meme community called 'million dollar extreme' and the 'Q-anon' conspiracy bunch. I don't know how to describe voat, it has little regulation so it will feel more like websites like medium.com, https://www.real.video/ bitchute, minds, steemit, https://gab.ai/home . There are agendas trolls, political shills and fakes here quiet a few may have picked up a paycheque from Turkey, Israel, Vietnam, Pakistan, they try to pass themselves as White old money White Anglo Protestant Bible Americans but they are not very good at it, they are soon exposed by voat's immune system for want of a better term, I think the posts from Vietnam are mostly spam attacks. Somebody mentioned a Chastain Justin I don't know, they were hosting and domain and adverts in Germany, Colombia, Amazon links, posts speaking against the actions of Israel, Saudi, Jews, the accurate history of Holocaust...it could have opened that whole Anti Semetic 'Shut it Down!' attack, voat could have chosen the easy option got some quick cash and continued as a little site but it decided to grow and go the hard way... oh yeah and there is a big 'pizzagate' community...peoples who believe or believed for years that Weinstein, Bill Cosby, the British tv England's Jimmy Savile, the Roman Catholic Church and the refugee traffickers in the Middle East, India and Haiti are all part of some giant abuse conspiracy of rape and satanism? ... I think the site mostly survives now on donations in crypto like Bitcoin. The was also a migration or exodus or invasion from subreddits, r / fatpeoplehate and r / neofags, accusing them of whatever. Games are big on voat! Actually gamer community here is huge reddits gaming community took KotakuInAction and the voat game community as a refuge when they were threaten with purges, censorship, bannings, reddit has been bleeding its gamers into voat for years now.