It's got a different codebase, so some features are different. Also a different culture. Which is weird since most of us came from Voat.
Voat downvote brigades people that they have a disagreement with, even if it's a slight disagreement, or people they just don't like. They are an echo chamber. We don't do that here on Poal.
Yeah that's kind of why I'm here. Voat is pretty much useless unless you're a right-winger specifically looking for right-wing political content, and even then much of it reposted or inflammatory fake news. I am a right-winger but like you said Voat is an echo chamber. What's more I could not recommend Voat to my friends because they would probably see the frontpage and think I'm crazy.
I'm definitely open to a board that still has quality political content that affirms free-speech, but one where it isn't everything, and there's other quality apolitical content on the frontpage. Even from a purely political perspective, platforms don't get popular when they host purely political content, they get popular when they host quality content.
We're smaller and much more of a community, like Voat once was. The bigger it (Voat) got though, the more hostile it became and now seems more like just a right wing Reddit. Here we still have the feel of the old Voat.
List the drawbacks, and maybe you got your answer.
Technologically, it doesn't matter, right? We can view posts and comment, so who cares if it's C#, python, php or Cobol?
Well, this place is small, you'll know everyone by their names, the admins are just there, some malicious attempts to fuck the place were addressed quickly. I don't dislike voat or Putt, but that place became too crowded and circlejerked for me.
Voat is run by a shit admin.
Poal is run by two awesome admins
Massive racism, not subtle but in your face. You have to have a thick skin to hang out there, I do so it's not a big deal. I just take the racism and let it go and some of the racist stuff has some merit on how Disney hated jews because they kept trying to get his dumb brother to sell them the company behind Walt's back, I'd hate them to if they tried to do that to me. I'd also take any power from my brother after I kicked his ass first.
I'll just add that there's a , so maybe that's not what it looks like.
Its possible I suppose but the screen shots seem conclusive. I'm willing to admit that its possible its a fake, but I can say that things like that won't happen here.
I think the light mode looks nicer here. Also, there's less pressure to tow an ideological line.
not enough people to form an echo chamber. hatred shouted in a thread only echos if the person you replied to bothers to reply. most of the time they read it and mark as read, and don't bother to vote on it. There's nothing to amplify the fractal hatred on this site.
Voat is an anti-semite echo chamber. Poal isn't.
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