Sorry to hear this, but I can’t say that I am surprised. I can offer you a new home on the alternative I’m currently building: https://flingup.com
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Are you the original creator of Voat?
FlingUp looks great from a functionality and UI perspective, but in five minutes on the site I'm already seeing outright racism and other problems that kept a lot of people off Voat.
Do you intend to address these types of issues?
I haven’t seen much of that yet. But funnily enough, one of the top links for me right now is “Text message that will bring down Biden”, which sounds exactly like something you’d see on r/whitepeopletwitter or similar front-page disinformation subreddits, only from a right-wing instead of left-wing perspective.
Based on its functionality and UI, I'd really like for FlingUp to succeed. It looks like the best reddit alternative that's currently available.
But if it's just going to descend into being another Voat, I'm not going to bother encouraging my communities to switch over. We're all familiar with what invariably happens to forums / social media sites that have no restrictions on what type of speech is allowed.
Lemmy is looking like a viable alternative. According to this[0] page running your own instance is pretty light on resources, and they have an official Ansible playbook install option[1].
And, whereas with FlingUp I have no control over their moderation policies, with Lemmy I can set the moderation policies for the instance and defederate any other instances as needed.
0. https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/administration...
How do you plan on keeping FlingUp from turning into Voat?
By creating a non-profit foundation and running it like Wikimedia does Wikipedia. No ads, tracking etc and no shareholders. This way, it will be alive for as long as the users find it valuable enough to keep donating.