I’m so cut up about this. I mostly lurked, but Voat was by far my favourite place to come to see that really people knew what was up, and to get news and humor that wasn’t just ZOGged BS.
Most of you don’t know me, but I’m gonna miss all of you.
I tried to clone 08chan on zeronet to make VoatChan but I can't get it to work right. I think there is something with the owner .JSON that needs to change but its been so long since i've done any web design I can't figure it out.
I've made my new home over at TheDonald.Win and GreatAwakening.Win and Conspiracies.Win... because that platform was designed for the war against (((globalism)))... although I'll also be keeping an eye on poal.co
That said, I feel that we'll likely be fighting in the second American civil war within a month or two, so perhaps we'll be fighting side by side again, sooner than expected.
It gives me a heavy heart that all good things come to an end. I only wish there was more time to properly say goodbye to all of my old Voat Goat friends who haven't responded yet.
★My last month paycheck was for 1500 dollars…K All i did was simple online work from comfort at home for 3-4 hours/day that I got from this agency I discovered over the internet and they paid me for it 95 bucks every hour.
Reddit, 4chan, 8chan, 8kun, Voat, all of them centralised on an http website, all of them vulnerable to a single point of failure, all of them now closed. Goats should not keep repeating the same mistakes of history and should move to a distributed platform that is designed to resist the sort of censorship that is happening around the world and on http. That time is now.
Aether is released under the GPL, has been going for years and has already had its first wave of Goats arrive and start communities.
A web-browser is a client/application. Some people use an application for their email too, like Thunderbird. They might use an application for torrents. Another one for viewing video, like VLC. Maybe they have one for playing audio too. Computer games are applications.
A distinct advantage of using a GPL'd client to conduct discussion is that it gets around all the censorship and tracking crap on a web-browser.
Except browsers don't deplatform and require you to maintain your own fork.
It would be nice if you didn't pretend it's gonna be fine because we can just 'run our own', e.g. I remember Tox being a complete mess that no one talks about anymore.
The moderation system in Aether is transparent. If a mod wants to block a post, everybody will see their decision. You can impeach a mod you don't like, if there are sufficient, like minded people.
If you don't like the stuff happening in a subverse, you can create another one of your own, even one with the same name.
Have you turned your own attention to the next platform you would like to use instead of Voat? What are its major flaws? I think that by comparison with Aether, in balance and in the long run, Aether will prove the better choice.
Please, go ahead, publicly criticise your own choice. It will be helpful for other people making a decision.
Poal is my choice. It's not the best, it looks like shit they and have a different idea about downvotes, but is sure better than some application with its own protocol written by a guy in San Francisco of all places.
I don't buy the idea of "just create your own sub" and mods having the power to do more than the bare minimum. And the concept of impeaching makes no sense, who can impeach the mods? The people who are already banned? Are they also doing preemptive bans like on Ruqqus?
Aether is a p2p reddit as far as I'm concerned and the developer of any platform can lose interest the same way and the community will fragment regardless. (and no, none of the speculation so far is believable to me, he just lost interest).
Let us say you belong to /b/Cats, and keep posting images of catamarans, but the mod in /b/Cats wants you to stop or post pictures of pussys instead. You continue posting boats, the mod blocks you or removes your boat pictures. Justifiably upset, you use the impeachment mechanism to get rid of the mod. If enough other people feel the same, you or somebody else will become the new mod.
You can't get "thrown off" Aether, as the network is distributed. It is also anonymous. You can keep joining with the same name as a previous user or other existing users. There could be two /u/mikeniggers at once for example. It is very different from Reddit. I really think if you had a look at it, you would actually like it.
There are a ton of Goats over there now and the initial encounters between Goats and Aetherians are very fun to watch!
Well spotted! I didn't think about that, but it is a bit like reserving a username on IRC really. It is a way of contributing to the funding of Aether's development and also I suppose a status symbol, In two years of being on Aether, I have hardly seen anybody with such a reserved name, only the main developer really. It is not a big deal to be honest.
Yeah. Struck a chord. I was just channel surfing, saw the song, and remembered it from when I watched the movie back in the day. FITS this situation in an abstract sense almost identical and contrary at the same time.
Meh she's a money grubbing PHONY in my estimation. I PERFORMED at the Grand Ol Opry (back in the day). AND have been backstage at various Arena shows. What's ON the stage is a DIFFERENT version of "them".
cyclops1771 ago
And yet, with all that freedom, half the posts were promoting genocide.
And then, once the site was announced it was closing, all the alphabet and JIDF shillfags disappeared, and suddenly, no more genocide posts.
Funny how that works?
JesusDrowning ago
Stay golden, goatboy..
lolhowpatheticareyou ago
Voat isn't being censored. It just got destroyed by the free market.
elfgoose ago
I’m so cut up about this. I mostly lurked, but Voat was by far my favourite place to come to see that really people knew what was up, and to get news and humor that wasn’t just ZOGged BS.
Most of you don’t know me, but I’m gonna miss all of you.
Merry Christmas guys, see you in the next life
Derpfroot ago
Thanks, brother. All the best to you and yours, too...and to all you other goats, the same. I wonder what @MaroonSaint will be doing for Christmas?
Maroonsaint ago
I’ll be with family and when I get a second I’ll go to type in voat then I’ll remember it’s not there anymore and I’ll be sad
concernedpikachu ago
been here 5 and a half years... gonna miss you fucks
QueensNewYorkGuy ago
Where are we all going? Someone send me links, please.
boystosoys ago
poal, 8kun, 9chan
JTMTL ago
Peace & love to you all. Peace and extra love to President Trump.
illuminalto2 ago
Love you brother.
Love to all goats
ClaytonBigsby313 ago
Im picturing a headless Liberty Prime being Piloted by a Goat, crushing NPCs and fags under each step.
Plant_Boy ago
You too, goat-faggot!
seidoken ago
I tried to clone 08chan on zeronet to make VoatChan but I can't get it to work right. I think there is something with the owner .JSON that needs to change but its been so long since i've done any web design I can't figure it out.
xpat ago
Ask https://twitter.com/codemonkeyz (creator of 8kun)
seidoken ago
I might give that a shot.
ObamasPinkSock ago
God bless you goatboy.
I've made my new home over at TheDonald.Win and GreatAwakening.Win and Conspiracies.Win... because that platform was designed for the war against (((globalism)))... although I'll also be keeping an eye on poal.co
That said, I feel that we'll likely be fighting in the second American civil war within a month or two, so perhaps we'll be fighting side by side again, sooner than expected.
It gives me a heavy heart that all good things come to an end. I only wish there was more time to properly say goodbye to all of my old Voat Goat friends who haven't responded yet.
See you all on the other side.
LikesBoobs ago
Not that I exactly post or comment much, but I’ve been here daily for fuck knows how long. I’ll miss you cunts.
KingMortales ago
6 years for me.
Tzx ago
Maroonsaint ago
Let me see your dick in case we don’t talk again
Ocelot ago
Not gonna let you see my dick but I'll miss you man. Keep a wary eye out for those feline bastards. And the kikes.
Maroonsaint ago
Well as of now I’m heading to poal and other places. I don’t even wanna visit voat anymore it just brings me down. So many memories
LikesBoobs ago
Pic sent.
TheSecretShakespeare ago
O.K.
Let Me change My camera settings to panoramic.
-- The Sassy Shakespeare
tokui ago
Stay strong out there. Truths will recognize each other by free speech.
RiverWind ago
Aether
https://getaether.net
Reddit, 4chan, 8chan, 8kun, Voat, all of them centralised on an http website, all of them vulnerable to a single point of failure, all of them now closed. Goats should not keep repeating the same mistakes of history and should move to a distributed platform that is designed to resist the sort of censorship that is happening around the world and on http. That time is now.
Aether is released under the GPL, has been going for years and has already had its first wave of Goats arrive and start communities.
There is a thread about Aether here:
https://voat.co/v/whatever/4170305/26917432?context=10
Leveraction ago
Thanks. I'll check it out.
tokui ago
We don't use apps.
RiverWind ago
A web-browser is a client/application. Some people use an application for their email too, like Thunderbird. They might use an application for torrents. Another one for viewing video, like VLC. Maybe they have one for playing audio too. Computer games are applications.
A distinct advantage of using a GPL'd client to conduct discussion is that it gets around all the censorship and tracking crap on a web-browser.
mikenigger ago
Except browsers don't deplatform and require you to maintain your own fork.
It would be nice if you didn't pretend it's gonna be fine because we can just 'run our own', e.g. I remember Tox being a complete mess that no one talks about anymore.
RiverWind ago
The moderation system in Aether is transparent. If a mod wants to block a post, everybody will see their decision. You can impeach a mod you don't like, if there are sufficient, like minded people.
If you don't like the stuff happening in a subverse, you can create another one of your own, even one with the same name.
Have you turned your own attention to the next platform you would like to use instead of Voat? What are its major flaws? I think that by comparison with Aether, in balance and in the long run, Aether will prove the better choice.
Please, go ahead, publicly criticise your own choice. It will be helpful for other people making a decision.
mikenigger ago
Poal is my choice. It's not the best, it looks like shit they and have a different idea about downvotes, but is sure better than some application with its own protocol written by a guy in San Francisco of all places.
I don't buy the idea of "just create your own sub" and mods having the power to do more than the bare minimum. And the concept of impeaching makes no sense, who can impeach the mods? The people who are already banned? Are they also doing preemptive bans like on Ruqqus?
Aether is a p2p reddit as far as I'm concerned and the developer of any platform can lose interest the same way and the community will fragment regardless. (and no, none of the speculation so far is believable to me, he just lost interest).
RiverWind ago
Let us say you belong to /b/Cats, and keep posting images of catamarans, but the mod in /b/Cats wants you to stop or post pictures of pussys instead. You continue posting boats, the mod blocks you or removes your boat pictures. Justifiably upset, you use the impeachment mechanism to get rid of the mod. If enough other people feel the same, you or somebody else will become the new mod.
You can't get "thrown off" Aether, as the network is distributed. It is also anonymous. You can keep joining with the same name as a previous user or other existing users. There could be two /u/mikeniggers at once for example. It is very different from Reddit. I really think if you had a look at it, you would actually like it.
There are a ton of Goats over there now and the initial encounters between Goats and Aetherians are very fun to watch!
mikenigger ago
I'm checking it out right now, and the centralization is in your face:
Guess I'll have to settle on being a second-class citizen because McFaggot decided that way.
You don't understand what decentralized means, Aether is a meme.
RiverWind ago
Well spotted! I didn't think about that, but it is a bit like reserving a username on IRC really. It is a way of contributing to the funding of Aether's development and also I suppose a status symbol, In two years of being on Aether, I have hardly seen anybody with such a reserved name, only the main developer really. It is not a big deal to be honest.
Hipsterrr ago
I'll check this out, but it's likely that for the time being most goats will use multiple sources of gathering.
freespeechplease ago
Let's vote on our new home! I started a thread just now.
This Aether idea looks cool
Hipsterrr ago
submitted my 2c
tokui ago
it's a pc app
ruck_feddit ago
15% of goats, tops, are going to setup aether.
thebearfromstartrack ago
Saw this tonight on "best little whorehouse in texas" (then searched YouTube for it)....sums up my sentiments on life when this sort of stuff happens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcPY3RIvtCw
HopelesslyDownvoted ago
Funny and sad at the same time.
thebearfromstartrack ago
Yeah. Struck a chord. I was just channel surfing, saw the song, and remembered it from when I watched the movie back in the day. FITS this situation in an abstract sense almost identical and contrary at the same time.
HopelesslyDownvoted ago
I think Dolly would put us retards on a short bus IRL, but it’s a movie so....
Merry Christmas 🎄
thebearfromstartrack ago
Meh she's a money grubbing PHONY in my estimation. I PERFORMED at the Grand Ol Opry (back in the day). AND have been backstage at various Arena shows. What's ON the stage is a DIFFERENT version of "them".
HopelesslyDownvoted ago
All the World's a Stage
thebearfromstartrack ago
I was thinking basement. Could be my WHOLE problem!
HopelesslyDownvoted ago
Let’s get this show on the road!
illuminalto2 ago
Lololoo perfect
thebearfromstartrack ago
Weird isn't it? Except we're not a bunch of girls. Or whores. Or Texans.
gazillions ago
Great post. I'm sure we'll all keep doing what we have to do.