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?
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