Thank goodness for a proper voat alternative!

submitted by huhu1 from self.SaidIt

Seems like a good place here. It's like voat without the bullshit so far. We definitely need more free speech platforms. Reddit went full SJW. Voat became some weird ass place for many haters rather than facts and logics, also a potential honeypot with weird ass developers and admins thinking they are gods and ignores to communicate with the peasants.

I read this isn't even .Net? So you are using the frontend from voats or reddits open source. Had no idea Microshit took a license fee of thousands of dollars a month for using their Azure .Net which seems to be the case for voat.

Keeping costs down for popular social platforms seems to be tricky. P2P might be answer.

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

Welcome to saidit!

This is built using reddit's last published open source code, from 2015. Our site is totally open source here: https://github.com/libertysoft3/reddit-ae

I understand voat is paying something like $5k/month in Azure .NET licensing fees. That's $5k/mo before any servers or bandwidth or anything. So it's no wonder they're having financial problems.

Saidit's total operating cost is $31/mo right now. We plan to keep everything as cost-streamlined as possible so saidit can keep running for years and years to come.

We're looking in to making this site in to a P2P system that has a decentralized server network so it can never be shut down, but that's probably a year away at least because of the complexity of building such a system. But it is a high priority for us in the long-term.

[–]thehermit 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Voats okay, maybe your too much of a pussy to be able to handle truth.