Study I found about Voat - Upgoat - "where a goat can be a goat"

Study I found about Voat
submitted by DoughGoy to whatever 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 04:14:36 ago (+27/-0) (arxiv.org)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.05933

I searched for Voat on Google and this site came up which has a PDF of a large paper/study about the original VOAT. It was last updated in 2022 it says.

I haven't read much of it, but someone may find it interesting.

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[ - ] Drstrangestgov 11 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 08:53:50 ago (+11/-0)

The study about conspiracy theories that proved many of the theories

[ - ] taoV 9 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 08:22:54 ago (+9/-0)

"I can't keep it up."

-- Putt, 2020.

[ + ] rando

[ - ] rando 0 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 12:24:50 ago (+0/-0)

WTF happened to keeping an eye on taov.co?

[ + ] taoV

[ - ] taoV 0 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 13:59:30 ago (+0/-0)

Shit. Got too comfy.

[ - ] firestation7 6 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 05:56:27 ago (+6/-0)

Okay, I am kind of in shock here. It says Voat had 113 THOUSAND users? 10 THOUSAND posts per day? What the fuck? Where are all of those people?

[ + ] Kozel

[ - ] Kozel 5 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 06:27:40 ago (+5/-0)

this isnt voat

[ + ] kammmmak

[ - ] kammmmak 4 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 09:05:31 ago (+5/-1)

Voat was never that many.

[ + ] texasblood

[ - ] texasblood 5 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 11:03:32 ago (+5/-0)

Yeah you shoulda been here,I remember some of those years.
Then all the faggotts moved off to twit,redit,Instagram.
I'm sure several thousand died of whatever.
It was a far cry from 1994 Yahoo news groups some started with

[ - ] CHIRO 5 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 09:21:17 ago (+5/-0)

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/voat-creator-speaks-on-reddit-refugees-plans-for-future-2015-07-10

Jeeze, this link from the bibliography made me sad. It's like finding an old photo album or something, and there are pictures of the kids in it who are all grown now. Well, in this case, dead and gone.

[ + ] Not_a_redfugee

[ - ] Not_a_redfugee 3 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 11:04:29 ago (+3/-0)

Atif Colo, the creator of Voat

Im guessing that was "Atco?" or "Atko"? I forget. Cool.

I miss voat.

[ + ] CHIRO

[ - ] CHIRO 1 point 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 11:18:13 ago (+1/-0)

Im guessing that was "Atco?" or "Atko"?

Atko, yep. I do, too. Those were the days. I didn't come around until about 2016, so I wasn't here for the earliest years, but the time before Christmas 2020 was special.

[ + ] dass

[ - ] dass 2 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 16:49:10 ago (+2/-0)*

Yeah, i think i managed to jump on 2015 (maybe 12 months before the trump election). Early enough to experience all the good stuff and the pizzagate investigations before it was assimilated into the nonsense early q-anon/ trump train .

[ - ] Leveraction 4 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 13:34:36 ago (+4/-0)

Interesting that ((they)) find voat to spew hateful conspiracies, but don't say what measures they used to determines WHAT exactly is hateful and WHAT exactly is conspiratorial. Their article is strictly speculation/opinion with zero fact

[ + ] dass

[ - ] dass 0 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 20:07:18 ago (+0/-0)

Basically, Anything anti-establishment, Govt regime/ authority status quo and anything determined against the common good (shit people shouldnt know bc it either goes against the first reason, or enable people to seek a third path off the established narrative reservation).

[ - ] Special_Prosecutor 4 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 11:27:11 ago (+4/-0)

Antonis Papasavva - PhD Dawes Centre For Future Crime at University College London.

Amin Mekacher - "His research is afterwards applied for social media analysis, and more specifically to study how disinformation can become endemic on an online platform, and how communities start to take shape around a specific narrative."

Their research is prefaced entirely on the assumption that their knowledge base is true and yours is false. They often reference QAnon movement across various platforms reddit, voat, poal, because it most easily satisfies their confirmation bias that they are good and you are bad.

They are right (true) and you are wrong (false). But despite you being deplatformed for the common good, you survive by migrating to another platform. How can this be stopped?

These are stupid "smart people".

[ + ] PotatoWhisperer2

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 1 point 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 11:48:03 ago (+1/-0)

It's the same with most things, especially anything out of academia. That political compass thing for example. All the questions are from a post-moderdnist's point of view, and no other view is even considered.

[ + ] Cantaloupe

[ - ] Cantaloupe 0 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 22:33:02 ago (+0/-0)

A bunch of leftist assholes.

[ - ] rando 2 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 12:55:36 ago (+2/-0)

PDF https://files.catbox.moe/jh6ch3.pdf

[ - ] RobertJHarsh 2 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 09:18:39 ago (+2/-0)

Is the data set available? Nice to know my posts are part of academia for the ages!

[ - ] Crackinjokes 0 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 19:03:01 ago (+0/-0)

How do you download the actual data of voat.co?

[ - ] TheBigGuyFromQueens 0 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 09:11:38 ago (+0/-0)

Pretty sure I saw a Youtube channel called “UpgoatReddit.”

[ - ] DoughGoy [op] 0 points 7 monthsSep 24, 2024 04:15:44 ago (+0/-0)