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Enough to say that if someone's looking for a reddit replacement because they don't want racism, voat is not the answer.

There is probably a niche for which a stripped down HN-like forum with moderation but for general discussion might be moderately successful.. moreso if it provides a robust API that allows for third party clients.

Maybe self-hosted forums will make a comeback.

I don't think self-hosted forums ever left, really. But it's like IRC versus modern messaging apps; there's been a huge amount of inflation in terms of what user base "success" is supposed to look like.

It would seem so.

Here's a selection of post titles currently on the front page of voat.co:

- Syria chemical attack was false flag operation by US

- Didn't some vegan, muslim, woman shoot up youtube a week ago?

- A heavy redpill from a man who knows what he's talking about.

- Congressional Dick Pics

voat is also where all /r/fatpeoplehate posts went when reddit banned it

Yup it's basically reddit for the alt-right and banned subs... not exactly the place most people want to be

It kind of is, but like Reddit, you make you're own frontpage, you have to find the right communities for you!