Shit is getting weird. The Dissenter browser should have been something we discuss here on Voat, whether you support it or not it's logical that it would have been a topic of conversation. Instead it received less upvoats than a bunch of inane bullshit that was posted yesterday.
https://voat.co/v/technology/3235495/
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Le_Squish ago
I don't trust Torba and I think a lot of goats feel the same way.
Hysterical ago
Whatever you want to call it, when a topic about freedom of speech and censorship is mysteriously missing from Voat it seems strange.
This is something we discuss. Trusting Torba doesn't matter, this is right up our alley. Even if you think Gab is compromised, ok well let's discuss that.
Doesn't feel natural that basically all threads about the Dissenter browser basically feel scrubbed from Voat.
VapidGopher ago
I think a lot of it goes back to a few months ago when dissenter came out. There was an initial announcement in 2 or 3 threads of the course of a few days, nothing unusual. Then, for the next few weeks, almost daily threads being pushed unusually hard to the point it was obvious there was some level of forced advertising going on. I think that backfired and turned away a lot of potential users. They tried pushing it on the chans with very little success, and I guess they felt it would be easier to market here. I don’t mind discussions on it, I just don’t want to see a return of the aggressive advertising that they (or really unusually excited fans) were pushing here daily.
It’s a great concept, it’s just lacking users. I feel almost certain 95% of voat has heard of dissenter, but not all users want to use it all the time. I use it occasionally a few times a month. I don’t use it regularly because I don’t like the idea of them knowing every website I go to. It also needed a lot more users commenting because I have yet to find a page with more than 5 comments.
Hysterical ago
... yeah a practically revolutionary freedom of speech tool was talked about heavily on a website dedicated to freedom of speech. And that in your eyes is evidence that there was shilling involved.
I'm not wasting any more breath on you.
VapidGopher ago
If it was that simple then yes you would be correct. I never called it shilling, I called it aggressive advertising, which ironically turned some people against it. Your account is barely a month old, so I don’t expect you to understand or remember events that happened here several months ago, and it certainly doesn’t make you an accurate source to discuss events that happened on voat over 30 days ago.
If it was as revolutionary as you said, they wouldn’t be having issues getting a user base. Also the conservative news tool on iOS called “The Report” was doing the same thing with comments long before dissenter came out. Only dissenter decided to open it up for all websites.
This thread, like most dissenter discussion threads after 5 hours, is abandoned so I won’t waste anymore of my time on it.
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