There was once a reddit alternative, namely voat, that started normal and became the most alt right incel qanon thing imaginable. Here’s a dataset with voat data and posts arxiv.org/pdf/2201.05933v1
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FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Their tolerance of racism and bigotry was why I left
It seemed like every shitty person wanted to make it a far-right safe place
I’m glad it failed
TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
those were the bots
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I had interactions with a few, and they were very much the typical, stupid, bigoted yank
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
[deleted]Miaou@jlai.lu 17 hours ago
Is it a slur if these people are proud of it?
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
It’s crazy how little I value your opinion
dadpolice@piefed.social 47 minutes ago
It was just reddit with a nicer interface but the exact same awful users. There was absolutely no reason for anyone to use it.