Comical. You would have seen the same type of responses were someone to talk about Voat shutting down, back in November or earlier.
Um I was on voat for 5 years. When it was whoaverse I only started this place during the 3 week outage because someone had to do something. Apparently I called it early but I called it.
Fine. I was there as well, with the Alpha badge on my account (not on this user account). But to pretend this site can't / won't go away is dishonest. Hosting is vulnerable, which you have no real control over. Payment processing for donations or funding is vulnerable, which again, you have no control over. Even getting enough people to pay to keep this place running is vulnerable, since that cannot be guaranteed. Relying or the charity of others gets you fucked. Poal is no different than Voat in these ways.
I was really proud of my Alpha badge. I have 3 backup hosts already I've been deplatformed already once. Trust me I got this.
I know what can happen I watched it happen to other places I would be stupid not to learn from that.
Relying on the charity of others is the only way I see something like this working not one place has tried it long term before that I know of. Voat didn't take donations for a long time.
Me personally even if I get depressed or something like that I have a partner that will step in and pick up the slack and vice versa.
Voat was my home for a long time, I ran traditionalmen and traditionalhusbands. I cared about it a lot it got me and my wife redpilled then when I saw it start to fail I said someone needs to stand up so I did. Then a fuck ton of people stood up behind me.
I believe those people care and I believe none of us are going to quit. If we need more help we will get it. If we need more money we will ask. If we need someone to just talk us through a hard day we will ask. We are human beings but we believe in free speech.
We are not quitting everyone who has been here a while knows I'm not perfect but they know damn well I'm not ever quitting. Its just not in me.
Edit: I know no man is an island.
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