voat.co and voat.xyz are unrelated save the name and a former .co user who started the new site. talk.lol is it's official name, and the plan (as I remember) was to simply use the voat name as an attract for former .co users, then change the name.
Voat.co shut down on christmas of last year. The exodus and subsequent whining of former users who showed up here was an exquisite treat.
Many of the .co users that migrated to here, then to .xyz when it opened were mad they lost their little empires and couldn't insert themselves into this place easily.
I had the misfortune of migrating to both voat and poal. Both were skin thickening experiences. But I’m a tough old bird who wanted truth. So I lurked, sucked it up, and stuck it out.
Looked at voat.xyz when I first heard about it. Doesn’t compare favorably to either poal or voat.
I checked out the .xyz site when it first opened and gave it a few months to gain some traction. It just doesn't seem inviting like the original did. It doesn't seem to be what voat.co was at the end, but it's just not something I jump into and feel interested.
The feeling of voat is lost to the sands of time. Never to be achieved again.
Voat.co had a really good run and there were some outstanding discussions on there. That said, I do miss it a bit but not any more than any of the old websites which have entered the dustbin of history.
The level of discourse on poal is pathetic compared to what we had on old Voat. Average comment length here is one sentence. I'd be curious to compare figures.
And it's not like these single sentence comments are extremely insightful and witty. They're just bland affirmations towards the submission's title. This shit happened on voat.co of course, but people actually had DISCUSSIONS on Voat. Multiple paragraphs, which would then be addressed point-by-point by another user- and not the way users like AntiClutch do; They'd actually respond to what the person said!
That's what I miss about old Voat. I feel like I'm amongst a sea of tiny-brained, soft goofballs on Poal. I think and type really fast, so I end up reading an article/watching a video and writing a multi-paragraph comment with my take on the content; users seem to like most of my comments, but I wish I'd see more from other folks. The motto is "Say what you want!"... so fucking say something more than just "I agree with the OP, niggers/jews are bad."
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