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[–] 0421008445828ceb46f496700a5fa6@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There were plenty of normal people who left to Voat a well. Anytime it was mentioned on Reddit there was a surge of vitriol but if you made it past the "hazing day" conversations were fairly normal (tho I never subscribed to politics subverse)

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Your username is so long it's partially broken the UI on kbin! I've put it in an issue here: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/579

I'm finding lots of little UI fixes I've been cleaning up recently. Wonder how many other parts of the UI look a bit wonky when you've got a long username :o

[–] Cult_of_62@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Just CRC-64 hash then hex encode it - honestly who's gonna notice the difference (outside of collisions) :P?

[–] PrunesMakeYouPoop@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really liked voat, and then the reddit exodus happened and poopy heads ruined it.

[–] aeternum@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was on coat since the beginning. Stopped using it when the degenerates ruined it. It had so much potential.

[–] PrunesMakeYouPoop@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I went back a few years ago to see if it had mellowed out... it did not.
Then I went back last year and it was gone.

[–] trafficnab@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It's anecdotal but I randomly decided to check out Voat exactly once, and on the front page, from their version of r/videos, was a holocaust denial conspiracy youtube video