Putt speaks, and a canary notice too!

https://voat.co/v/announcements/2580890/12961935 My reply. For those who want to save a click: >>You can see this with Voat. A majority of Voat users still use Reddit. People use Reddit for posting and interacting when it comes to PC topics (4 wheel drive subs, movie subs, book subs, etc.). They use Voat to post the things they can’t post on Reddit. This creates an imbalance where Voat becomes increasingly un-PC, while Reddit gets the neutral content (I know even the most hardened ideologue has a level of civility). The end result is this imbalance drives people away as people wear out when confronted by content like this over the long run. >I've been saying that for a long time. To be successful, Voat would need to become the site for everything - for stomach-curling free speech, but also for movies, cat pictures, RPGs, pipe-smoking, car tuning, and whatever else greases the wheels of normie-friendly sites. Instead, over the last few years we have seen content creators like Locke actively driven away - and we see it still happening with users crying about "forum-sliding" whenever a contribution in v/funny gets highly upvoted and dares to displace one of the bazillion j00s/negroes/muslims/libtards from the frontpage. Many seem rather to have the vision of an increasingly extreme and one-sided echo chamber where the choir preaches to itself, and don't care about the growth and outreach of the site, nor do they care about actual free speech (which includes speech you don't like). >I had high hopes for Voat in 2015, but I doubt that in 2018 we could still get there. Too much scorched earth, too many burned bridges, and a tarnished reputation that makes convincing those having broader interests or opinions against the site mainstream difficult.