Whereas hubski is full of people attracted to here from reddit being full of those who are racist, sexist, or due to wanting to have an alternate to reddit. Voat is an alternate to reddit that is attracting conspiracy theorists, along with every other group that adopts the idea that reddit's community at large does not like them, or that the mods are shutting them down.
People who believe that reddit's mods are censoring them and shutting down discussion, shadowbanning for talking about bad things (which is rarely true).
I find it interesting to compare and contrast the two communities. With voat being far more "reddit-like" than hubski is.
One of the interesting things about Hubski is how it uses a different mechanic from reddit and its clones - it's not a simple vote up/down and the most popular wins, there's a sideways sharing thing going on too. I feel like sharing something on Hubski is more of a commitment to stand behind it than upvoting something on reddit or a reddit clone. I wonder whether that simple difference has anything to do with the more civil tone of discussion on Hubski?
Just flipping through a few subs in the topbar, I like /v/music's tastes more than /r/music's, and the signal to noise ratio of /v/programming looks better than /r/programming. But /v/politics makes my head hurt. I don't think I'll be going back, but it's not as bad as I would have thought from that description.
I was excited to find another reddit alternative, but when I saw how popular /v/conspiracy was on it my excitement was tampered somewhat. Still making an account though, and will probably go and argue with everyone, which I do consider a positive thing.
I consider debate a very positive thing, but there are some I don't even start because I know that the other person isn't willing or interested in changing their mind. Good luck, however.will probably go and argue with everyone, which I do consider a positive thing.
We've been getting a number of referrals from discussions of Voat on Reddit. I wonder if being in Switzerland makes it more or less likely that they will take down objectionable content. Their Privacy Policy and User Agreement don't seem appreciably different compared to Reddit. In the end, an effort to become profitable is what usually applies the real pressure. Voat does serve a purpose, and some people don't feel like Reddit is doing it. From their About page, it looks like Voat and Hubski are interested in some of the same outcomes. However, it doesn't seem that they are taking an appreciably different way than Reddit to achieve them. We don't think that top-down moderation is the way to go. IMHO their privacy statements in the About Page and their use of Google cookies doesn't match up. We will never sell it. That's something we're completely against in principle, and this will not change. ... voat.co uses cookies to store information about visitors' preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits, and to personalize or customize our web page content based upon visitors' browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser. DoubleClick DART Cookie Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on voat.co. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our site's visitors based upon their visit to voat.co and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL - http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html Our Advertising Partners Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include Google. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on voat.co and which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our site's third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site. voat.co has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers. At any rate, I am glad that they are copying Reddit rather than us. :)What will you do with my data?
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I have yet to figure out how Hubski works, but that's what I didn't like about Voat. If their goal, as they say, is a place where "no legal subject in this universe should be out of bounds", then all-powerful user moderators are the wrong choice. They will have the same problems, that Reddit has. We don't think that top-down moderation is the way to go.
It also seems to be exactly what people from reddit expect Hubksi to be.
Another interesting difference:
People do seem friendlier there though, which I like.Since yesterday, we have seen a rather large influx of users and a spike in activity, which we are very happy about
Vote fuzzing. This comment was originally a joke because I thought we were talking about Hubski but then I chased the link through and it could actually be an answer 'cause it's Reddit. Reddit fuzzes votes so people don't really know the true number of upvotes/downvotes. Why? Idk, some shit, blah blah