![]() Īlthough Voat was based in Switzerland, Voat became incorporated in the United States in August 2015. In December 2014, WhoaVerse changed its name to Voat for ease of use. The website has been labelled as an alternative to Reddit with a focus on freedom of expression. He was later joined by Justin Chastain (known as on Voat). Company and funding įounded in April 2014 as WhoaVerse, the website was a hobby project of Atif Colo (known on Voat as then a college student. The website used the Colombian top level domain. The name "Voat" is a play on the words 'goat' and 'vote'. The site has also been described by The Verge as a model for other "censorship-free" alt-tech services, including Gab, Parler, and Hatreon. The Verge described the site as " Imzy 's dark twin", in that both were indirect products of the Gamergate culture war. In a January 2017 New Yorker article, Voat was described as a descendant of 2chan, 4chan, and 8chan, where users compete for shock value. The site was also widely described as a clone of Reddit, or sometimes dubbed "the alt-right Reddit". Voat was described by media outlets including Quartz, The New York Times, New York, and the US and UK editions of Wired, as a hub for the alt-right. Voat was written in the C# programming language, while Reddit is written in Python. Unlike Reddit, Voat emphasized looser content restrictions and an ad-revenue sharing program. According to Wired, Voat was "aesthetically and functionally similar to Reddit." Like Reddit, Voat was a collection of entries submitted by its registered users to themed categories (called "subverses" on Voat) similar to a bulletin board system. Voat was a site which hosted aggregated content and discussion forums.
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