It would be nice to share some pede history with some newer pedes. Thanks 🙏🏻
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Before VOAT there was the chans. And both the chans with their Q posts ran concurrently with VOAT.
But some of us (myself included) did not like going into the chans as they were difficult to navigate. VOAT was easier to use and understand with less nudity,
There are files that many anons downloaded from VOAT before they killed the site. I do not have any of them but was a VOAT member who moved over here when VOAT closed down.
Same here. A good place to read the new Q posts and also get a breakdown on what they meant. Reading the posts in real time, they referred to events that were happening AT THE TIME they were posted. Seeing the proofs went a long way, for me, in believing that Q was the real deal. Several anons on YouTube were also great sources for Q post breakdowns, like redpill78, but they were all purged from YouTube. When Voat was closed people were sharing places to meet up, GAW was the one I ended up at. Voat was way more Q focused, but then Q was still posting then. By the start of GAW it was obvious that the news the MSM, including Fox, was putting out was complete propaganda. GAW, as was Voat, was the only source of reliable news for me.
Thanks! When and why was Voat shut down?
I think it was shut down Christmas Eve of 2020, shortly after the election. Not sure why, though.
Somebody screenshotted the last post before takedown.
It was a post showing a direct connection between the vatican and Les Wexner, who was epstein's first "client".
Wish someone would post it so we could see it. I barely remember it because of the heartbrokeness of it all. Worst Christmas Eve I remember
It was shut down due to rising costs.
They used the Azure cloud from Microsoft with a big discount for new users, and used C# (Microsoft technology) to build the site. When the discount period was over, it was $6000+ per month to keep the site up. There was attempts at converting it to open source but it didn't go anywhere.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/comments/6btlv1/voat_hobby_reddit_clone_with_no_monetization/
I see. Thanks for the info 🙏🏻
Hmm don't quite remember when it was. It was a few years back. The owner of the site shut it down didn't want to run it any longer I guess. He did give us warning, though.
Interesting… wonder what happened to him.
I was a goat too. Ibliked some aspevts of voat. But it got overrun with nazi antifa types.
Me too. But let's be honest. VOAT was only slightly better than the chans. The VOAT user-base exploded when Reddit killed CBTS (Calm Before The Storm) and GA (Great Awakening). Both boards predated VOAT and had a MUCH larger user base. The VOAT mods were total assholes to the Redditors. They tried to chase off any new users that came from Reddit. I had already had an account on VOAT before Reddit killed the boards on their platform, so I kind of flew under the radar and didn't get any crap. I stayed on, and eventually they grew to accept us, but it was nothing like the community that we have here.
Pretty much sums me up too. I didn't like trying to navigate the chans. VOAT was easier and it had a rawness/free speech going on there that I appreicated.