I love this shithole. My tech skills are fairly meager but I would absolutely contribute monetarily and otherwise to Voat's survival or whatever can be built from it's ashes.
If you have any ideas/suggestions to BuiLd BAcK BetTEr post them. Example: I've heard of some anonymous/distributed hosting tech that could let a place like this survive, but I have no idea if they're really functional.
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111MrGuy111 ago
The easy thing to do would be to just get a mirror going. We'll need an image of the site including members and their ratings intact.
chigbungus ago
That's the literal hardest thing to do lmao
111MrGuy111 ago
Its either that or migrate to an untrustworthy venue surrounded by questionable users.
chigbungus ago
That is definitely not the only option.
A better option would be to create a similarly functioning site on a less expensive software stack, but unless I received monero I wouldn't be able to keep it up for very long, because as soon as people know it's a 'voat replacement' I'll have glowniggers and kikes DDOSing my ass all day.
111MrGuy111 ago
The board doesn't matter, it's keeping the community INTACT for us to TRUST is what matters. Starting over is no different than going to any other board, and signing up along with the shills. After which will require months or years before returning to the same normalcy (if at all).
chigbungus ago
What community was there to trust when voat started up?
This is a complete non-argument, and your months/years claim is completely unsubstantiated.
Crossing an option off the list for the 'reasons' you've stated is complete retard shit.
111MrGuy111 ago
Nigger, I've been through this so many times; they will always divide us, and then subvert our new home. They only way to stay ahead of them is to keep trust intact.
chigbungus ago
Trust can be built into the system used on the site - there are plenty of more efficient ways to do what voat tried to do regarding free speech and avoiding the abuse of mod power.
111MrGuy111 ago
My proposition was to rehost the image of this site. Yours is to CREATE a whole new site.
How is my idea more difficult? I'm open to suggestions for a more free-speech site, but we've four days...
chigbungus ago
It's more difficult UNLESS admins release the database behind the site.
If they put up a torrent of the site code and data, your idea would definitely be feasible.
The idea of starting up a new site isn't necessarily the most labor-intensive option either - I just think it's a good idea so that we can avoid the current pitfalls of the site, namely operating costs and centralization.
111MrGuy111 ago
Well yeah, there is that. If not then we either migrate or start over.
chigbungus ago
On the plus side though - this means a fully decentralized site could take it's place. This would solve both problems of operating costs and potential DDOS attacks
111MrGuy111 ago
I saw suggestion of a blockchain free-speech social media. Not sure how that works but I'd keep a rig running to help keep the site up.
chigbungus ago
It's definitely a more ambitious project than a simple website run on some russian servers. Doable, but outside of my time budget right now
chigbungus ago
Unfortunately I don't see them doing this, so yeah - looks like a do-over :(