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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lepersbell ago
Decentralization/Federation is the only way forward.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
And instead of Discord where we will inevitably all meet up and then get eviscerated all at once, we need more Element/Matrix/riot.im servers that can host a few dozen to a hundred people each. That way when one pulls the plug there's another dozen or ready to distribute to until more servers can take their place.
8moe ago
I have a lemmy instance up at redchanit.us (can't link directly; new account) which you guys are welcome to use. For some background, I was tinkering with Lemmy a few months ago as a potential bunker for KotakuInAction, the GamerGate board on Reddit. They ended up going to .win before my proof of concept was operational, but I still had everything lying around. I work with AcidMan, who created 08chan, a zeronet alternative to 8chan when it went down, and we currently operate an 8chan successor imageboard.
The current instance is running on a very tiny VPS, but if there's interest and people want to actually use the site then I can upgrade it easily. I'll give it a bit and see if there is interest. If not, I'll mothball it again.
lepersbell ago
Yeah, Lemmy was at the forefront of my mind as well and that's what I've deployed.
Perhaps we should get the ball rolling on Federating with each other once that's out of their testing stages.
https://voat.co/v/whatever/4173093