So what? It's written by humans, and those people are just as human as you. Just because you don't agree with it doesn't mean they are wrong.

There are a billion Muslims that worship a guy that married a prepubescent child. Who are you to say that they are wrong to do so? Or that not liking a group of people (like you are doing yourself) is wrong?

Funny defense to use for a crowd that spent all their time regularly, hatefully dehumanizing people. The front page was routinely plastered with shit like "Why interracial children are an abomination," Hitler-did-nothing-wrong propaganda, usernames that echoed Nazi slogans and fantasized about mass-murdering non-white people, etc. It was an utter cesspool, and preserving and perpetuating that is a really weird use of dev time and effort.

It’ll be useful to have when the posters pop up as presidential advisors.

Sounds an awful lot like reddit. The cesspool whose users universally celebrate murders committed by far-left terrorists.

While Reddit always has someone celebrating / inciting everything from the benign to the macabre, this is just cope.

Kirk was in a process of sanctification by the right as a knight for debate and reason, as if he wasn't gleeful about Paul Pelosi almost being pulped to death with a hammer. People not dropping everything to make him MLK is not celebrating his murder. As for Brian Thompson, he was the modern equivalent of a British tax man in the Irish Famine, people being indifferent to his death is expected. If Mangione was more palatable in his politics to MAGA (instead of just being a RFK fan) and Thompson had photos with Pelosi or something, he would've been a perfect Trump pardon candidate.

As far my recollection goes Voat was actually pretty nice content wise until /r/fatpeoplehate got banned. After that it became the dumping ground for every shithole community that was too awful for Reddit, quite an achievement TBH. It was inevitable with 20/20 hindsight, but I would've loved if it had had more breathing room to actually develop as healthier alternative.

Even if it failed the same way it could've influenced the redesign to implement RES-style QoL changes instead of the clusterfuck that New Reddit still is.

I have grown very tired of the astroturfing / bot campaigns on reddit. It is really sad.