see /v/whatever/2510570

Plot twist: Voat.co is a subsidiary of Reddit

Monitored?

Everything digital is being monitored/compromised.

ITT, samefagging skyrockets and shilling jumps the shark.

It's going to come down to this, unfortunately.

What would the userbase of voat do if these questions are never answered?

We may be loud about it now, but unfortunately I forsee nothing changing and everyone doing the "keep calm and carry on" routine. Feels bad man.

The canary has not been edited for 4 months.

I've been concerned for a while :(

I"m pretty close to leaving

I'd rather pay for good service than get shit for free.

https://voat.co/v/whatever/2509207

Q himself addressed us. Ask for proof and I'll give it to you.

17 days ago, actually. If we assume he was around passively a few days after that, we could still be within a fortnight's holiday away from Voat where the back end never went down and may not have set up alerts.

maybe he got sick of chaperoning an online nazi forum out-of-pocket

:thinking:

Eat a bag of dicks.

A good example of your lack of logic. How the fuck am I defending those who attacked voat? I'm not and nowhere did I even hint that I was.

You're so stupid, it hurts. You sound like a low IQ nigger.

Gotta agree, don't listen to 9-11.

No, your credibility is shot. Nobody who's been around here for even a couple of months listens to you dickwad.

Has anyone considered that Putt is burnt out or just fighting depression? People in either of those states can and will fuck off from projects like this with little to no warning.

Did you just reply to a SG alt?

hey @TheUnnamedPlayer you're starting to sound like me, @sanegoatiswear. if you want to go down the rabbit hole, read all the megaposts on my profile page (top and bottom most comments and posts, from when the admins disappeared to the massive shill onslaught assaulting, harassing, and defaming anyone speaking up about the shill takeover of voat.)

Atko is not atko putt is not putt. They have always been screennames on a computer “atko” and “putt” are no more than characters, actors can be replaced but the characters will always remain. Fuck put fuck atko and fuck what is now voat, “(((THEY)))” have destroyed this beautiful place

I think the story Atko tells makes sense. Maybe Put just quit. God knows we are an ungrateful, pushy and cantankerous group of people.

My concern is that free speech was dead for a little while. Voat is the only place it exists. Freespeech is an endangered species and Voat.co is its last acceptable ecosystem.

Question everything, check your sources, talk to each other in person...

What does it matter? Things change and by previous admin shutouts it seems they don't want or need our concern. Nothing bad really just how they or him want it.

If something nefarious happened, why would they compromise Atko's account and leave everything in mystery when they could have used Putt's account and said something like "sorry I was on vacation" or something. It just doesn't add up.

I'm guessing Putt is either on vacation without internet or has some personal stuff happening in his life (hospital, death of family member, etc.)

'Atko' restored VOAT. How much more can you ask?

Nobody listens to you mang.

Damn you people need some help. I have been reading your crying and whining about how terrible this outage was. Do any of you fuckers have a life?

I smell a Law Enforcement take over, just how they did Silk Road and Lulzsec. Officer if you are reading this: free speech is not a crime.

The permanent beuracracy aka deep state like any organization, has always been sociopathic to it's own needs. Obama took it being weaponized and agenda driven to the next level. But post Obama it has become it's own semi paranoid beast drunk on its own power and itching to floor it for the first time.

This genie does not go back in the bottle without Extreme purges. Yes from here on out we need to get bg used to being very careful about having proven CIA and Mossad style tactics used against us.

Long time lurker first time posting... is the canary dead???

There is still the possibility that something happened to Putt.

So, he just happened to get into a fatal car accident or something at the exact same time that Voat was knocked offline? Seems fucky.

I hate to break it to you, but the entire corporate/government internet is something sinister going on. DIY, open source, p2p meshnets or FTW!

Some of us really tried to step up and help in the beginning. Putt wanted help, Atko could care less.

I think Putt thought it was going to be easier to find funding for a replacement platform compared to Eddit. Unfortunately, the "free speech" aspect of the site is off-putting in today's PC climate. After going through funding talks, dealing with other issues, platform and code fixes, etc - putt may have just literally emailed Atko and said "fuck this shit, I'm done".

I've also poked around, I'm not seeing anything serious happening to Putt. I'm not finding any jail photos or news articles. I'm all for taking vacations where I'm out in the middle of nowhere, but I typically have people that back me up (maybe thats why Atko checked?). The site is serious now where there needs to be some sort of staffing. It's not just a one-man volunteer show (assuming he wasn't pulling a check since we've literally had no financial info) with dev volunteers.

Even I thought about options during the outage and watched Riot and Discord while the stupidity happened within those rooms. It was interesting to watch the convo turn from just trying to get something temporary up devolve into paying for things all the way down to creating new platforms using technology that doesn't exist on a site yet.

Lots to think about.

It does seem like it was some sort of error on our end. Seeing as atko was able to fix it after finding it in about a half hour. God bless that goat.

Putt doesn’t really disappear; as much as he very rarely appears at all. It’s obviously become a serious problem. We need an admin who has a little bit more drive/energy for this place. A least a second admin, or a small team with access to contact him via email?

But I’m not saying there wasn’t something that happened. I don’t know, and am suspicious.

The part about any info on the situation being censored everywhere tells me there's fuckery going on.

Was Voat just sold?

We, as a community, need to have a really serious discussion about what to do in the event this place goes down permanently. I was legitimately concerned over the last two days that this place was toast and I'll be god damned if I'm going to the chans.

I think we may need to consider what happens if Putt doesn't come back and Atko isn't available when the server bills are due... Voat could be gone for good this time next month.

This has always been a limited hangout to me, but yeah, very fishy indeed. Putt better come to us with a great all-encompassing reason why this all happened, and why he wasn't here, and do this as soon as possible. If it takes a week to hear from him, it'd be very hard for us goats to believe him.

I don't necessarily care if it's a honeypot or not. If you're not already on some list somewhere, you haven't memed enough.

Agreed. Something fucky is going on here. I'm glad voat is back but at what cost? The disappearance of putt and lack of input is worry some.

Putt was abducted by (((aliens))).

Why do so many people assume that putt has no personal life and has guaranteed internet access 24/7?

Also, how can anyone assume that any online forum is not subject to keyword spidering?

Come on, grow up.

The things I’ve read said that Put takes fairly normal/usual breaks from the site - he has a full time job as well as running this place and he doesn’t want to get completely burnt out on it.
This is something I’ve read he does multiple times before this outtage. I believe he’s even said it himself a couple times.
But I feel ya. There’s no harm in being skeptical. Maybe try running Ghostery or some other extension to see if there’s any new trackers on the site - that would be a good indicator as to whether or not something nefarious was added.

You're not being too skeptical, These are all valid, serious questions regarding the future of the site, and the safety of it's users.

I want to know what the fuck happened just as much as you do. Great Job to Atko for getting the site back up again, Seriously, But right now I'm not sure if this is the work of Atko, or (((Atko))).

Don't let this question die.

If this place wasn't a honeypot before, it sure as fuck is now.

My only wild thought is putt just bailed and atko just hit power button on the server and said I fixed it and I don't know where put is as he reads the email from put that only says I quit.

But maybe we will find the real answer soon™