Those were the days my fren.
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Did you know voat was being analyzed by certain group so they could learn how to better influence us?
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.05933.pdf
Overall, we hope this work further motivates and assists researchers focusing on deplatforming and how users organize massive immigration to other platforms. In addition, our dataset could also help answer numerous questions about how ‘free-speech’ sites operated, e.g., do moderators ban users that express opinions other than the ones aligned with the narratives of a subverse? How do other users vote and how toxic are they towards such content? Do sites like these incentivize users to form echo chambers? What kind of content users in this communities consume, etc.?
Also, our dataset could assist multi-platform studies to understand similarities and differences of different communities. Last, since Voat was a bastion of free-speech, we are confident that access to our dataset could assist researchers towards training algorithms in natural language processing and detecting hate speech, fake news dissemination, conspiracy theories, etc.
Finally, other than quantitative work, we hope that the data can also be used in qualitative work studying specific events, social theories, and communities.