This is what interests me in Poal. Voat has some good parts, but because of the mainstream board culture it's impossible to recommend it to my friends or to strangers online. There's not much use to it unless you're specifically looking for right-wing news or memes, and unfortunately most of those are reposts or clickbait anyway.
Ideally I'd like to see Poal be focused on quality over politics. But definitely have a pro-free-speech, pro-libertarian board culture.
So tired of the constant political bullshit on voat. Just about every frontpage post on voat is political. Voat might as well be a gov't sponsored bulletin board. Maybe it is...
What's scary on Alexa is that Voat is rated in the 6000 range of top sites, Minds is just over 1000, and Poal is like above 160,000th most visited. This is backwards from what I would have guessed.
There is a lot of traffic from the Q-tards and from the recent ban wave at reddit
For a good portion of 2018 the mods over on Reddit were telling users to just "fuck off to Voat already."
They stopped doing that when they realized that "power users"(1) actually were leaving Reddit for Voat and the various chan boards.
Reddit used to have several artists and other users making exclusive original content specifically for Reddit. The site peaked mid to late 2014. The 2016 election broke the site.
(1) This is an old term from back in the Digg.com days. These are the few users that actually frequently post & engage content throughout the day. The keep the subs from stagnating.
Yeah you reminded me of when Digg screwed their users by posting half paid content. It seems that cash tends to screw up every site that had a decent change with NORMAL people in return for cash from not so great sites that just need the exposure replacing the great content with the tepid crap. Yeah Reddit deserves to die in their echo chamber PC world. They'll likely learn when they can't pay the bills but their reputation which is worth it's weight in gold but not reddit gold. I can't believe they haven't changed their logo gateway of the internet because like you said that hasn't been true since around early 2016 when they were paid off by Soros and the DNC to silence people. I was a good poster there and got many upvotes but then all of a sudden the site was inundated with crazy and I mean crazy ass people screaming on how non caring I was stating such a thing. SOmething that would have been upvoted the year before will get you a warning a year later.
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