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What steps are they gonna take to keep it from being Voat?

Happy there is another alternative, but it'll take more than FOSS optimism to make it a viable replacement.

Yeah, what happened there? I was excited when it first came out but I've never seen any good content. Just political vitriol.

Reddit is bad too. Apparently it isn't, but if you read it closely, you'll see it's all circlejerking and demonisation of the other side.

I think it is just impossible to have a massive internet forum to discuss politics without it turning into rubbish.

Like 4chan in its early days, please consider that a good portion of the extreme obscenity is a canary in the coalmine to ensure speech isn't being limited...

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