I am sure many of you have seen this thread suggesting that voat may have no more than a month left to live. Of course this isn't the first time that we have had reason to be concerned about the longevity of this website.
We need some sort of backup form or message board. It wouldn't have to be a perfect voat replacement, it could even be a on a compromised service like reddit or discord. The idea being that if voat were to vanish suddenly, this community would have a place remain in contact with one another, and when a suitable replacement was found, the word could be spread through this backup site. With out a back up such as this, the sudden death of voat would cause this community to disperse and it may never find a common home again.
One possible idea for a site that could even be a full fledged new home is Aether as suggested by @RiverWind here. I don't know anything about that service myself, but it's the only suggestion I have seen so far a backup home.
What say you Goats?
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BushChuck ago
My guess is we would invade Poal, for shits and giggles.
Apart from that?
They killed Voat.
Boogaloo time.
Nut up or shut up.
edit - come at me, feds. VPN for the win!
FellowMan ago
This poal?
https://poal.co/
I had not seen that site before myself. What's its history?
Jock_Sniffer ago
Thanks for the heads up. I've bookmarked Poal.co in case Voat goes down.
ruck_feddit ago
Oh dude, it's the bomb. There are easily a dozen active users. The admin is basically a crensch. What's not to love? Go make an account so we can talk on those days voat goes down.
FellowMan ago
Haha whats a crensch?
ruck_feddit ago
That's a very good question. Spend 10 minutes forming your own opinion.
https://searchvoat.co/?t=Crensch
FellowMan ago
Oh it's a voat user. I thought it was some yiddish slang I hadn't heard before or something. So you're saying that the admin of poal behaves like the voat user Crensch, but they are not (so far as you know) the same person?
ruck_feddit ago
Here ya go: https://voat.co/v/whatever/3686692
ruck_feddit ago
Not yiddish and it's not the same guy. That is very funny though. I actually think it's Yiddish for tiny crippled faggot, but there is limited evidence to support my theory. That last part was a joke, partially.
Warnos44 ago
It's a who, not a what.
FellowMan ago
okay... who then?
Ina_Pickle ago
The site was created by a former Goat. I think at first it was meant to be a backup because this site had gone down. But the creator of Poal had a falling out with Putt. Didn’t agree with things happening here.
Humansized ago
its like voat, but closer to reddit with its needless drama and censorship. afaik its only ever popular when voat is being shitty.
BushChuck ago
The owner is a complete faggot.
Go create an account. Most of the Goats have accounts there already.
ALIENS2222 ago
Ho-Lee-Fuk! :)
FellowMan ago
Can you tell me more about the site though? How old is it, and what other internet community or communities did it come from?
Tsilent_Tsunami ago
Poal was created during The Great Voat Outage. If you weren't around, voat suddenly went offline for almost a week. So one voater created poal. It tries hard not to be voat-centric, but it's very quiet when voat is working normally.
bobdole9 ago
I asked the same thing...here's what I got:
https://voat.co/v/introductions/3594516/22009448
MadJackChurchill ago
We tried to rejoin the two sites but got into a terrible fight over whether to call the new board Vole or Pout. It was awful, especially when the midget in the gimp suit stole the company swancar, and ran over @heygeorge's big toe.
heygeorge ago
Christ, whatever happened to my foot pictures?
ifuckdolphinseverday ago
I have them stored @virge's mums
heygeorge ago
That fat mule has got an air gap that’ll fit the pricks of a football club
MrDarkWater ago
a voatish clone with a wierd kike admin.
Tzitzimitl ago
ah, so business as usual?
BushChuck ago
As far as I know it sprang from Voat.