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Tankies think this community is operated by the CIA and want it shut down by the Admins
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this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
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I used to peek at Voat every once in a while. I bet some people here have heard of it? If was one of the websites that sprung up when reddit had one of its "exoduses". Voat became crazy right wing. I mean, openly nazi, out loud racist, vile people. The loud minority. Well, I liked to poke at them every once in a while and it wasn't long before I was labeled a "Jew shill". IDK how that even happened. This reminded me of it.
They moved to gab. It's a festering shit hole of "patriots"
I was a very prominent member of voat during its early days. My account was disabled and shut down multiple times, though the Admins often reinstated my account. Likewise, I was on said.it and ruqqus, same deal, too many extremists which then shut down the site.
It happens because mainstream social media sites shoo away extremists, which is fine, but inevitably big social media sites collapse little-by-little, and so the only alternatives are extremist places. Then it's a whole loop, no one wants to engage because of the lack of diversity, and eventually, the whole site shuts down, and everyone goes back to mainstream social media. I mean look at my account and this community for instance--the exact same thing is happening again, a handful of extreme no-lives are trying to shut down opposing views.
Thankfully, though, Lemmy is federated.