Voat to shut down Dec 25

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[–]magnora7[S] 14 insightful - 4 fun14 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

Never once asked for donations, even though the angel donor stopped paying in March.

I think he just wants to quit and this is a convenient excuse. He's obviously put a lot of effort in to it as well, but these problems are solvable. He's just worn out.

[–]awdrifter 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

He might have threats/deals behind the scene. Voat is the biggest Reddit alternative, it's not inconceivable that he's paid off to shut it down or threatened with legal action if the didn't.

[–]Zapped 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

There are several suggested scenario's including cashing out the bitcoin donations after their $ value jumped into the millions. Owning that site could jeopardize his new found wealth. There is talk that he is also the owner of the website poal.co and that maybe he naively signed over the rights to the voat site to the "angel" investor. This investor merged with a company that wants to "clean up" voat, so he decided to shut it down instead. I am like you and lean towards burn out, unless concrete information comes out. You guys have a job I wouldn't do unless I was heavily compensated (and had to know-how).

[–]Ash 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Great take but how could he decide to shut it down if he doesn't have the rights to voat anymore? Did he make a deal with veto rights?

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

It appears Voat's major shareholder has been acquired by Jewish interests. The rest is obvious.

[–]BillionDollarEgg3 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Chatlog where Putt mentioned that he lost his fingers https://preview.voat.co/v/whatever/703 'but it's hard to type'

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Wtf, rollerblading accident? I don't even know what to make of this.

For posterity here are the things he said in the chat:

2020-11-06 04:50:29 @PuttItOut: I was. Jesus gave me life again.

2020-11-06 04:59:22 @PuttItOut: I should hang out more but it's hard to type when you lose a few fingers in a rollerblading accident

2020-11-06 05:00:39 @PuttItOut: lose as in I'm sure a small wolf had a nice snack

2020-11-06 05:03:03 @PuttItOut: I got both thumbs, it's the middle finger I miss the most, especially when driving.

[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The problem with a social media site closing down, even one you disagree with, is that almost all records of it disappear. That means the only thing left are peoples opinions of it and they are usually wrong.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah it creeps me out when entire websites and all the comments just disappear. We think the internet is permanent but it's not. Thank goodness for backup projects like internetarchive and many others, but there's still a lot of work to be done. Images are usually lost forever too unless they're reposted elsewhere, because image data takes a lot of space