Yeah though reddit did not have great infrastructure at the time either. They certainly were ahead of where voat is now. I checked voat out the first time this morning and it would need a lot of work to be able to become an actual alternative.
I learned of reddit because of the digg revolt, and the first time I went to reddit the first page was full of people heralding how reddit was better because it was an open community where users could do what they want and the community upvotes creates the front page, it wasn't in the hands of a few powerful mods.
Now reddit is more corporate, and they're pissing the user base off who came there because they precisely were not corporate.
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