Now that Ellen Pao is gone from Reddit and one of the co-founders has taken over as CEO, will that mean that those redditors that abandoned the site will rush back believing Reddit will return to what it was before Ms. Pao became CEO?
RedditRevolt
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#RedditRevolt The Racist, Misogynist Sexist Trolls
So, it appears that Ellen Pao, has mutually agreed with Reddit to step down from her position. I’m certain that this evening and over the weekend this will be among the umpteen-gazillion blogs and articles written about what happened today. Across the intertubes, the cheering began early this afternoon as the report came out in the media. Redditors have won!
#RedditRevolt: Time For a Change
It appears that voat.co is back online and seems to be operating fairly efficiently – for now. Of course, the issue for this site has been receiving a lot of defections from Reddit. What I hope the folks at Voat have done in the intervening days is to upgrade their server infrastructure to anticipate a flood of new registrations as it seems that Reddit continues to self destruct over their weird and incomprehensible policies and management changes.
#RedditRevolt – A Flash in the Pan?
It looks like that the number of users moving from Reddit is not the only problem Voat has had in recent days. As most already know, the company has come under sustained DDos attacks which has taken the site down for hours at a time. I hope that the new users and those considering moving to Voat, will not become discouraged by recent events. Here’s a brief account from The Independent on the recent struggles.
Redditors: Voat With Your Feet
A while ago, a friend let me know he was able to get into voat.co. Looks like it’s up and handling users for now. It actually looks like a lot of people have already reguistered based on the front page. I’d like to see some actual statistics ipof users though, which I’m sure Voat will publish at some point.
#RedditRevolt: Creating Alternatives
I asked yesterday if there were an alternative platform to Reddit. Someone mentoned to me a service known as voat.co. If you click on that link, here’s what you’ll see:
#RedditRevolt: Is There Anywhere Else To Go?
Just a few quick thoughts after talking/doing a bit of research on where else redditors would be able to hang their hats being that it appears there are many people looking to leave the Reddit platform.
From #GamerGate to #RedditRevolt
So now it’s #RedditRevolt. Will it go the way of #GamerGate? I don’t know a lot about Reddit, in fact, I just created an account last evening. I thought before I wrote anything about this latest drama I should at least attempt to do a little research into the site and learn something about it.