I don’t remember what caused the Voat’s origin, except it involved Reddit HQ. And then it went under in 2020.

What’s different about this time and with Lemmy to make it a feasible alternative to Reddit? Is it random chance?

  • Nahvi@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    It doesn’t seem that conservative ideology is particularly popular among whatever demographic reddit serves, based on the distribution of subs and comments.

    At one point reddit was a very diverse community.

    After one of the migrations to the site, some of the new users couldn’t tolerate the idea that there were extremists hiding in certain dark corners of reddit. Those users started finding those subs and doing things like taking a screenshot of an ad next to a post that company would never support and spreading it around the internet. It didn’t take long after that until reddit started cleaning out those dark corners.

    • zeppo@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I’ve been on reddit since about 2008. My experience was that it’s was very left/liberal, drawing users mainly from university students. There have always been people posting content that made it like 4chan lite, but not political talk. As best I recall I first saw anyone there identify politically conservative around 2014 and it seemed surprising.

      • Nahvi@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        I guess, I don’t really remember the political atmosphere from when I created my account around 2013 or so.

        My brother had been trying to convince me to create an account for some time, but it wasn’t until I realized that there was a lot more to the site than cat pictures that I got around to doing it. Once I got rid of most of the default subs, I thoroughly enjoyed it for several years.